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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by nojito on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:33AM (#23335263)
Backups are a solved problem and has been for decades.

Can you think of a better example?

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Re:We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by acdha on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:25AM (#23336036)
They’re a solved problem in the sense that the tools exist but that still has an ongoing operational cost to correctly setup, secure, monitor and test – and there are plenty of examples of expensive failures or security breaches caused by people thinking it was an easy solved problem.

Deciding whether you get enough benefit from doing that yourself is a classic business trade off which any experienced engineer should consider.

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