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There's a value curve for infrastructure, I'll use an analogy... Low Cost High Cost =============================
by alberth 1y ago
There's a value curve for infrastructure, I'll use an analogy...
Low Cost High Cost
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FARM WHOLESALER GROCERY RESTAURANT DOORDASH
BUILD CO-LOCATION HETZNER AWS VERCEL
While it's not a perfect analogy, in principle it holds true.
As such, it should come as no surprise that eating at a restaurant every day is going to be way more expensive.
- whstl 1y agoAWS is more of high-scale cook-your-own pizza restaurant where you can't see the bill until the end, and you often have to mop the floor and wash the latrines yourself too. And washing the latrine costs money too of course, but you don’t wanna get salmonella, right?
- alberth 1y agoThat's were my analogy isn't perfect. There's different tiers of restaurants. There's the luxury premium restaurants (Michelin star rated, like AWS), but there is also local dinners that arguably have phenomenal food too (maybe someone like DigitalOcean/Linode).
- Terretta 1y agoExactly. I hadn't seen your comment when I wrote this, below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616366 I love your farm-to-table grid: works for everyone not just HN commenters. And putting DOORDASH on the right is truer from cost perspective than the metaphor I'd used. For HN, I'd compared to a pricing grid (DIY, Get Started, Pro, Team, Enterprise) with the bottom line that if YAGNI, don't choose it. Your grid emphasizes my other point, it's about your own labor.
- hunvreus 1y agoI love that, I may steal it.