We've saved 5000% in cloud costs by writing our own database

Re:We've saved 5000% in cloud costs by writing our own database by samatman on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:49PM (#39954080)

I would imagine, as someone with no special insight into goings-on at Hivekit, that the answer is intended scale.

They mention 13.5k simultaneous connections. The US has 4.2 million tractors alone, just the US, just tractors. If they get 10% of those tractors on the network that's a 30x to their data storage needs. So multiply that across the entire planet, and all the use cases they hope to serve.

Investing time early on so that they can store 50x data-per-dollar is almost certainly time well spent.

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Re:We've saved 5000% in cloud costs by writing our own database by kdazzle on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:59PM (#39954163)

Presumably those tractors wouldn't be connecting directly to the db though. Not sure why they dont just go the standard iot events route and store data in a data lake and propagate into an analytics db/warehouse from there. Add a layer to make recent events available immediately.

S3 is relatively cheap.

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