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Not a bad article, but he omits the huge cost of running everything as lots of cloud services (or worse still, functions) instead of putting a single monolith i
by rwmj 4y ago
Not a bad article, but he omits the huge cost of running everything as lots of cloud services (or worse still, functions) instead of putting a single monolith into a VPS for a few tens of dollars a month[1].
[1] Yes yes yes, assuming you're not running Google.
- mjr00 4y agoIt definitely costs more, but "huge" is debatable. For the typical SaaS webapp product, the cost of running everything as cloud services is negligible compared to the cost of salaries of people who maintain it. If you're a solo dev on a shoestring budget it's worth considering, but a funded startup shouldn't be distracted from finding product-market fit and growth in order to save $1000/month on cloud costs.
- sebazzz 4y agoWith the cloud you're replacing regular sysops people with cloud certified people.
- mjr00 4y agoYou don't need "cloud certified" people. The junior devs I work with can make a highly available database with automated and fully tested backups, with point-in-time-restore functionality, by clicking a few buttons in the RDS console in a few minutes. I can't say the same about manually installing postgres on a VPS.
- thayne 4y agoYou need more than a single VPS long before you are the size of google.