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Re:Taking on Google on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:13PM (#26653258)
Even though it may be cookieless, you won’t « get away with GDPR » with fingerprinting.
Re:Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill? on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:20AM (#23800713)
Blog article about real-life AWS cost optimization strategy :

https://medium.com/teads-engineering/real-life-aws-cost-opti...

TL;DR:

- Monitor your daily costs

- Cloudify your workloads

- Use reservations, Spot instances, saving plans

- Look around for unused infrastructure

- Optimize S3 consumption

Re:Rules of thumb for a 1x developer on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:13PM (#23034089)
"Rule 11: Which database technology to choose: Choose SQL when you need to do ad hoc queries and/or you need support for ACID and transactions. Otherwise choose no-SQL"

I think it should be the contrary: SQL by default, no-SQL if you have a specific need and know what you are doing.

Netflix's analogy is great, and I would add: being charged $0.01 per minute of viewership is so stressful you would consume less, or you would be stressed about what your parents would say about the bill.