How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours

Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by vbezhenar on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @11:52PM (#17669125)

Is it possible to make a similar approach in cloud? Something like "if traffic goes up, scale up until $5/month and then don't scale further, let it be slow (or even better throw errors)". Would be the best of both worlds.

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Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by Xorlev on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:12AM (#17669185)

For services that are pay per request, this is effectively a hard cap.

For more capacity based services, sure, but it's more likely to be down than just slow. When systems are run at their limit they rarely operate the way they did with a little less traffic.

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