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On “Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt”
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How to Burn Money in the Cloud // Avoid AWS, GCP, Azure Cost Disasters
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An explanation of how cloud billing disasters happen and how to set up budget alerts and kill switches to prevent them.
Out-of-control cloud computing becomes very expensive very quickly 💸. Learn how a startup racked up a $72K bill in just 2 hours on Google Cloud. Tips to control costs on AWS, GCP, and Azure services that are priced to scale. Thank you to announce.today for sharing your story! #cloud #dev #learntocode References How we Burnt 72K blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-1/ GCP Budget Pub/Sub cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets AWS Budget Alerts aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/announcing-aws-bu… Courses Security fireship.io/courses/firebase-security Data Modeling fireship.io/courses/firestore-data-modeling Upgrade to Fireship PRO at fireship.io/pro Use code lORhwXd2 for 25% off your first payment. Hello World $72k in 2 Hours My AWS Story Budget Kill Switch Cloud Overflow Scale Down Bad Algorithms SecurityWhy it's here
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u/rykunoin r/node • Mentions
On “Best tutorial to make an infinitively scalable backend?”
Infinitely scalable isn't a thing. Twitter had something called the "Justin Bieber problem" where he had to notify twitter what he wanted to tweet and when because he was crashing the platform with every tweet. The fan-out activity feed architecture couldn't keep up with demand; and these are amazing engineers w/ tons of money we're talking about.
IF you want the best chance to scale to some stupid number there are steps you can take.If you know your read/write ratio; you can select a data storage platform that will suite your needs best. Then you'll want to ensure it can scale horizontally w/ sharding/vitess. Discord wrote a good article here discussing their needs and how Cassandra addre…