Re:It takes $420k per year to run Lichess
by OrvalWintermute on Sunday January 16, 2022 @12:15PM
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I too looked at the infrastructure list and wondered.
While I know many people are saying don't look at the cloud costs, when I look at those numbers it makes me think of CAPEX vs OPEX trades, and the OPEX here is non-trivial, but potentially a variable offset by some labor costs. I think some of this is being driven by a dated tech stack and technical debt.
Now, I am not one to trivialize the work that may need to go into getting this efficient, but I think you are right, we should consider investing into modernization of the stack.
While I know many people are saying don't look at the cloud costs, when I look at those numbers it makes me think of CAPEX vs OPEX trades, and the OPEX here is non-trivial, but potentially a variable offset by some labor costs. I think some of this is being driven by a dated tech stack and technical debt.
Now, I am not one to trivialize the work that may need to go into getting this efficient, but I think you are right, we should consider investing into modernization of the stack.