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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by mjburgess on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:52AM (#24372391)
The additional expense in OP had nothing to do with scale; it arises from: redundancy, analytics, off-the-shelf integrations.

It is a common misunderstanding amongst software engineers that infrastructure serves "performance". Most of the complexity comes from redundancy and analytics (, realtime especially).

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Re:Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users by lomereiter on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:57AM (#24372430)
Right, but how much do these nice-to-haves add to the revenue? Is it truly worth it to bake them all in from the very beginning? E.g. five minutes of downtime in morning hours will affect only a handful of users, and if so, why bother with blue-green deployments other than out of professional interest?
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