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The bulk of the media is served from appliances they give out to ISPs, so their AWS costs might be reasonable. It's also a huge company and a massive distribut
by Nextgrid 4y ago
The bulk of the media is served from appliances they give out to ISPs, so their AWS costs might be reasonable.
It's also a huge company and a massive distributed system, so moving that off from AWS is an insane amount of effort and there might be legitimate benefits from AWS' management and autoscaling layer that aren't as valuable for 37Signals which runs simpler, monolithic systems.
- klelatti 4y agoThanks - I'm guessing that they get a great deal from AWS too.
- mch82 4y agoAdditionally, Netflix falls into one category of website DHH writes about: unpredictable, significant bursts of traffic. When they publish Tiger King during the pandemic there’s a spike in streaming no one could have predicted. When people finish the show it goes away. The arrival time of the next breakout show is likely uncertain, even if it can be modeled using a statistical distribution.
- wlll 4y agoI worked at Basecamp/37signals up until 2015. We had peaks and troughs, with as you might predict traffic ramping at ET morning, and tailing off PT afternoon/evening. We had some European traffic, but it was substantially less than the US. It still cost /far/ less to buy/rack/power etc. our servers 100% of the time than it would have done to use the cloud and scale up and down with demand. There is definitely a situation when bursty requirements will make cloud the more obvious answer, but given the near order of magnitude cost increase for cloud it's not as clear cut as just seeing a wave on a graph :)