I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever

Re:I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Th... by marcinzm on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @10:12AM (#42256684)

The article says they spend around $150k/year on infra. Given they have 8 DevOps engineers I assume a team of 50+ engineers. Assuming $100k/engineer that's $5 million/year in salary. That's all low end estimates.

They saved $100k in the move or 2% of their engineering costs. And they're still very much on the cloud.

If you tell most organizations that they need to change everything to save 2% they'll tell you to go away. This place benefited because their previous system was badly designed and not because it's cloud.

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Re:I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Th... by m1keil on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @06:44PM (#42260971)

I'm not making an argument against the cloud here. Not saying you should move out. The reason why I call out cloud infrastructure specifically is because of how easy it is to let the costs get away from you in the cloud. This is a common thread in every company that uses the cloud. There is a huge amount of waste. And this company's story isn't different.

By the way, 8 DevOps engineers with $150k/year cloud bill deserves to be highlighted here. This is a very high amount of staff dedicated to a relatively small infrastructure setup in an industry that keeps saying "cloud will manage that for you."

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