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Re:People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work ... by gerbilly on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:17PM (#19752126)
> we were running 10 AWS servers - to serve a mostly static website and handle a few hundred REST API calls each day.

You could do taht with 2 instances and dropwizard (https://www.dropwizard.io/1.3.9/docs/)

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Re:People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work ... by mattmanser on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:43PM (#19752335)
Or you could do it with a single $5 virtual machine without any of the Amazon "you're an idiot for using the cloud because you don't need it" tax.
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Re:People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work ... by zild3d on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:00PM (#19753971)
don't need more than a single instance, or 1-2 lambdas
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