We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline

Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by brianwawok on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:20PM (#23332723)

More like ordering 133 lunches every day for your 100 employees and dumping 33 in the trash.

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by sankalp221 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:05AM (#23333275)

Fun fact, 30-40% of the food in our supply chain is wasted. So, we're actually not too far from that. Sure, the meals aren't directly wasted by the company and rather through the supply chain. But, the waste is still there and is surprisingly high IMO.

Source: https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by billyhoffman on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:44PM (#23332842)

And doing this for months. Without noticing.

Honestly this isn’t ultimately engineerings fault. This is a SaaS business Someone in their company is responsible for the COGS KPI. For that person to either not notice an increase in COGS, or to not be aggressively incentivizing engineering to reduce COGS, is giant red flag.

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by jinpan on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:34AM (#23333746)

The article did say that the motivation for doing so was because AWS credits were running out .. why prematurely optimize a free resource? :)

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by zaphirplane on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:10PM (#23332980)

Ouch this thread ruined some poor souls promotion / pay rise narrative

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by rlayton2 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:31PM (#23333091)

Perhaps more like ordering 100 lunches for your 100 employees and forgetting that 20 of them moved to night shift?

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