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> just a fraction of the total cost if you had to host the highest workload yourself. Like lets say my company gets a very huge spike and lets say I wanted to b

> just a fraction of the total cost if you had to host the highest workload yourself. Like lets say my company gets a very huge spike and lets say I wanted to be prepared for it for all times in baremetal, then I had to had a lot of vacant free metal Huh? Autoscaling turned out to be a myth. Even in k8, you cant make users wait for nodes to come online, so you have to always have spare nodes waiting. And the spare nodes must be in proportion to regular spikes you expect and additionally any unexpected spike that you estimate. Why would that be different from having extra free metal for much cheaper and simpler? Along with an easier time finding infra people who can manage that as opposed to finding expensive talent with the expensive bloat of technical knowledge that AWS today requires? Lets face it - this is the enshittification of infra brought by the lock-in Amazon was able to lure the orgs into. First, they locked-in everyone. Now they are squeezing everyone dry.

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
I am not sure but aren't lambda functions literally autoscaled? maybe you are mentioning that not everything can/should be a lambda function... and even forget about lambda function, cloudflare workers also do the same thing. I have hosted many websites on it, and the timing is literally negligible / even faster imo than trying to self host it / bare metal. I know It feels really shitty to move to JS just for such a huge boost IMO to get cloudflare workers but boy I am in love of cloudflare workers and I know cf has some bad sales tactics but it was just this one off instance or very rarely and I think cf was in the right on that one, all be it, they miscommunicated. Seperate the art from the artist. Seperate the sales from the tech team (for cloudflare), and you would see that cloudflare is literally great. Though I used to believe that cf workers + r2 was best but now thinking storage should probably be done r2 + wasabi

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago

I am not sure but aren't lambda functions literally autoscaled? maybe you are mentioning that not everything can/should be a lambda function... and even forget about lambda function, cloudflare workers also do the same thing. I have hosted many websites on it, and the timing is literally negligible / even faster imo than trying to self host it / bare metal. I know It feels really shitty to move to JS just for such a huge boost IMO to get cloudflare workers but boy I am in love of cloudflare workers and I know cf has some bad sales tactics but it was just this one off instance or very rarely and I think cf was in the right on that one, all be it, they miscommunicated. Seperate the art from the artist. Seperate the sales from the tech team (for cloudflare), and you would see that cloudflare is literally great. Though I used to believe that cf workers + r2 was best but now thinking storage should probably be done r2 + wasabi