News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes. Parent comment

Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes by lazyjones on Saturday March 23, 2019 @08:16AM (#19470125)
> at 5x the cost of 10k/year in infrastructure spend, Heroku is significantly less than a dedicated DevOps team.

How do these costs scale with 10x or 100x the traffic/load?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes by lumost on Saturday March 23, 2019 @11:14PM (#19473990)
At 100x the traffic the business would be at 5 million dollars a year in spend, and would exceed the standard pricing model of Heroku. The business can then

1) Negotiate with Heroku for an enterprise contract 2) Consider migrating to a more cost effective platform 3) Dedicate time home-growing a solution.

Part of the reason Heroku charges so much is because their customers are typically small, but they'd likely rather find a price that keeps you on their platform vs. home-growing a solution.

[ Parent | on HN ]