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Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails by dvdhnt on Sunday November 26, 2017 @02:30PM (#15782522)
> It costs us around $10k/month.

As someone who develops web apps for startups not in SV, that seems incredibly expensive to me.

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Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails by phamilton on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:11PM (#15783004)
It's the difference between 30 developers and 31 developers on payroll.
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Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails by Rapzid on Sunday November 26, 2017 @07:13PM (#15783871)
Haha, yeah. It's always interesting when you put it in that context. I often joke that AWS is our hardest working employee.
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Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails by nurettin on Sunday November 26, 2017 @11:42PM (#15784885)
That's amazing. I make less than 1/5th of that and it is considered among the top wages over here.
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Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails by michaelbuckbee on Sunday November 26, 2017 @03:21PM (#15782771)
Well, it's a sliding scale isn't it? If you have less traffic/paying customers you can pull that back down.
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