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Over the weekend I created a globally distributed CDN pulling data from a globally distributed, auto healing database as a cache. It took a few hours then I tor
by nprateem 4y ago
Over the weekend I created a globally distributed CDN pulling data from a globally distributed, auto healing database as a cache. It took a few hours then I tore it all down in 15 minutes, and it probably only cost a few dollars.
The cloud trades agility for cost.
- jjav 4y ago> The cloud trades agility for cost. Very true. Did you actually need a globally distributed CDN just for 15 minutes though, or was this a learning/PoC exercise? For any business that has very spiky resource needs (such as this example), the cloud is ideal. I've never been in such a business though, usually there is a fairly predictable (hopefully growing) steady load with small variance.
- nprateem 4y agoPOCing a new project that requires fast global performance to be viable.
- joelrwilliams1 4y agoThis. We're a small company that used to have a full rack in a colo, and have completely migrated to AWS 6 years ago. Our cloud costs are ~20x what our colo cost was. There are things we use in the cloud (DynamoDB, Aurora, CDN, etc.) that I just don't want to have to build and manage on my own. For us, the managed services are very much worth the extra cost. I couldn't believe how much better life is without having to diagnose failed DB backups.