Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for a year or more in advance on a certain level of spend. Th...
I hate the obsession to move to the cloud and the obsession towards serverless or functions.
Functions are stupid and crazy for anything that is actually used often.
For small utilities, they make a ton of sense, but next time I see an app with millions of requests per day using functions, I’m going to lose my mind.
Years ago I was the senior techie in designing and implementing distributed high performance server systems and what you reminded me of just made my blood start to boil… :/
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