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Re:How we saved money by replacing Mixpanel with BigQuery an... by thegavsie on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @06:17AM (#15851099)
The "backend" would have been a perfect problem to be solved by Google's Cloud Functions (i.e. serverless), rather than a Kubernetes cluster with Node and nginx.
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Re:How we saved money by replacing Mixpanel with BigQuery an... by boundlessdreamz on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:16AM (#15858731)
If you are processing at high volume, it might be cheaper to run a cluster rather than use Cloud Functions
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