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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by walrus01 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:07AM (#25372794)
fine, buy two identical ones. and set up proper backups. or even make the backup a hot-spare.

if it's a test/development system that's meant to possibly break, you shouldn't be driving anywhere at 0300 in the morning anyways.

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Re:Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went... by wrkronmiller on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:10AM (#25372814)
That implies you are going to be running prod in the cloud. Unless you're developing against purely synthetic data, the data transfer costs are potentially astronomical.
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