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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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