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Super-interesting interview with Zsolt Varga, the lead engineer and manager at Prerender.io. He shares how Prerender saved $800k by removing their reliance on A
by timschu 4y ago
Super-interesting interview with Zsolt Varga, the lead engineer and manager at Prerender.io. He shares how Prerender saved $800k by removing their reliance on AWS and building in-house infrastructure to handle traffic and cached data.
The goal was to reduce costs while maintaining the same speed of rendering and quality of service. Migrations like this need to be carefully planned and executed, as incorrect configuration or poor execution, would cause downtime for customer web pages and social media clicks and make their search rankings suffer and potentially increase our churn rate.
- matai_kolila 4y agoSo he “saved” $800k by spending way more than that building in house infra? Hmm. Edit: since this is spam, I’m now wondering what you could have accomplished in that time by learning about how AWS works…
- timschu 4y agoDefinitely not. Internal project costs for house infra was less than 100k, amortization less than two months