Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
by littlestymaar on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:27AM
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> Building a company is hard enough. Adding the overhead of developing, maintaining, recruiting for, and staffing our own datacenter is madness when I can click a few buttons and get the same thing from a cloud provider without hiring anyone extra to manage the datacenter.
“Building a company is hard enough, adding the overhead of actually building a company is madness”
> But that's a lot of hidden work that could have been allocated to launching the product faster.
The topic of this thread isn't about a brand new start-up with no resources trying to build their product as much as possible, it's about a company that spends millions in cloud invoices.
Building a company using AWS, totally legit. Scaling this usage up to millions of dollars because you don't want to manage the hassle, fair enough it's your money, I don't mind if all your profit goes to Amazon really…
“Building a company is hard enough, adding the overhead of actually building a company is madness”
> But that's a lot of hidden work that could have been allocated to launching the product faster.
The topic of this thread isn't about a brand new start-up with no resources trying to build their product as much as possible, it's about a company that spends millions in cloud invoices.
Building a company using AWS, totally legit. Scaling this usage up to millions of dollars because you don't want to manage the hassle, fair enough it's your money, I don't mind if all your profit goes to Amazon really…