I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS

Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by wackget on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:36AM (#47277224)

How many users does this website have? It must be relatively tiny.

Why the hell is this anywhere near AWS, or Terraform, or any other PaaS nonsense? I'd wager this thing could be run off a $5 VPS with 30 minutes of setup.

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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by gdulli on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:42AM (#47277347)

Overengineering won. That's not going to go well when paired with the new best practice of not actually learning your tools because the AI will take care of it.

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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by siim_osur on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:27PM (#47278122)

You do it once and then you no longer work there.

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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by nine_k on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:41AM (#47277311)

Isn't it a good way to play with all these in a relatively safe way, but still with nonzero stakes?

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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by dzonga on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:37AM (#47277245)

could have been on sqlite -- backups in s3 or equivalent object storage

but let's over-engineer

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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by dmix on Saturday March 07, 2026 @11:03AM (#47288803)

terraform is 100% overengineering for some hobby projects

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Re:I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More fo... by paulddraper on Friday March 06, 2026 @01:14PM (#47278800)

So…the less crucial the system, the closer to the metal?

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