Re:Startups should run on cloud providers
by falcolas on Friday August 04, 2017 @12:04PM
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Perhaps I'm just a jaded sysadmin (wait, I AM a jaded sysadmin), but the bells and whistles are rarely worth the cost of those bells and whistles.
Kinesis is a great example. Sure, on paper it looks cheap - fractions of a penny per hour and per million put operations. But just to handle logs for a dozen servers, you're looking at spinning up over 8 shards (for the read capacity mostly), an equal number of lambda aggregators, and a storage service (like managed elasticsearch). This alone can end up costing several hundred dollars a month. And you still want/need a specialist for managing elasticsearch!
I've worked for two companies now where they pay out more money for their infrastructure than they do for their entire payroll. There's something that rubs me very wrong with that.
Kinesis is a great example. Sure, on paper it looks cheap - fractions of a penny per hour and per million put operations. But just to handle logs for a dozen servers, you're looking at spinning up over 8 shards (for the read capacity mostly), an equal number of lambda aggregators, and a storage service (like managed elasticsearch). This alone can end up costing several hundred dollars a month. And you still want/need a specialist for managing elasticsearch!
I've worked for two companies now where they pay out more money for their infrastructure than they do for their entire payroll. There's something that rubs me very wrong with that.