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Are you talking about large or small companies? If small, why not just use RoR/Django/whatever + PostgreSQL? If large, then cloud costs absolutely matter. It
by glutamate 4y ago
Are you talking about large or small companies?
If small, why not just use RoR/Django/whatever + PostgreSQL?
If large, then cloud costs absolutely matter.
It seems that there is very small intersection where you need cloud scale but engineer costs exceed infrastructure cost.
- sokoloff 4y agoI think small and medium is well suited for cloud in areas where engineers are scarce or expensive. For me, cloud is more about pace, flexibility, and engineering efficiency than it is about scale. Even my little side projects I run on cloud. I don’t want to futz around learning how to configure, secure, and scale a DB server if I can order one up or use DynamoDB. I agree that very large and hyper scale companies are a worse fit for the cloud, largely in part because they can afford to dedicate centralized teams to running great ops. Tiny, small, and medium can’t.