Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
by stickfigure on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:02AM
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This is a pretty common train of thought, but it's not really a question of deciding between "my bill will explode!" and "my app will go down!"
You just really have to put some serious thought into what your daily limits should be, and add some reasonable alerting to detect surges. The tools are there and they're not terribly hard to use. It just tends to be an afterthought for most developers because this doesn't look like a customer feature.
Without these sorts of automated scaled services, the traditional behavior is "your app goes down". This is a big improvement!
You just really have to put some serious thought into what your daily limits should be, and add some reasonable alerting to detect surges. The tools are there and they're not terribly hard to use. It just tends to be an afterthought for most developers because this doesn't look like a customer feature.
Without these sorts of automated scaled services, the traditional behavior is "your app goes down". This is a big improvement!