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Not an engineer, but something like this takes 6-8 people working on only this for a full year?
by Rastonbury 2y ago
Not an engineer, but something like this takes 6-8 people working on only this for a full year?
- inoop 2y agoThat has been my experience, yes. You need one full-time manager, one full-time on-call/pager duty (usually a rotation), and then 4-6 people doing feature development, bug fixes, and operational stuff (e.g. applying security patches, tuning alarms, upgrading instance types, tuning auto-scaling groups, etc. etc.). Maybe you can do it a bit cheaper, e.g. with 4-6 people, but my point is that there's an on-going cost of ownership that any custom-built solution tends to incur. Amortizing that cost over many customers is essentially the entire business model of AWS :)