Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I Left AWS

Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by sgarland on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:24PM (#42942193)

> not so easy (or even impossible) on-prem

It’s as if an entire generation of tech workers are utterly unaware that these have been solved problems for decades.

You put two machines behind HAProxy with keepalived. If you want to do a new deployment, you can spin up new machines in the same manner, and cut them over (or any of the many other ways to accomplish this).

AWS isn’t inventing any of the HA stuff they offer; they’re taking existing technologies and packaging them.

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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by valenterry on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @08:58PM (#42942547)

So how do you do all of that with "a raspberry pi or mini PC"? You would need at least 4 of them.

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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by sgarland on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:32AM (#42947579)

I was replying to your comment, not the other. But sure, get 4 RPis if you want. You could also be using containers on them, and not need to swap whole computers. Or run each app in its own chroot jail. Or run VMs. There are many, many ways to accomplish this goal.

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