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We had some BIG surprises with Netlify billing. Basically we use the functions they provide, and we racked up a HUGE ass bill. They charge PER request, meaning
by phplovesong 5y ago
We had some BIG surprises with Netlify billing. Basically we use the functions they provide, and we racked up a HUGE ass bill. They charge PER request, meaning as soon as we deployed a semi "real time" interface for one app, the usage spiked.
Really, "serverless" is just a fad, and overloaded term. How about you deploy containers instead, and MAYBE have your database provided by a "Saas" provider (database maintenance, backups, upgrades etc, are the real time consumer, not the app server itself)
- ricktdotorg 5y agomaybe serverless is a fad, but it can be a very useful one to reduce costs. our corp IT ops group has a google sheet that tracks staff's g suite/workspace-MDM'd corp mobile phones (is the OS updated? are the MDM policies up to date? when did the phone last check in, etc). the sheet is auto-updated every few minutes by a few lightweight cloud functions in GCP that query a few google APIs, state is stored in Datastore. the cost has never been more than $0.20 per month and it has semi-revolutionized how the corp tracked mobile devices. of course our win was multiplied by our use of g suite + associated services and APIs. but, in our case, the savings in both hard and soft costs were very real.
- ZetaZero 5y agoI want to know more, please
- ricktdotorg 5y agoit's all here https://github.com/rickt/gsuitemdm https://github.com/rickt/gsuitemdm