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Our cloud exit has already yielded $1M/year in savings

by us0r on 9/15/23, 10:48 PM with 3 comments

• by thrillgore on 9/20/23, 3:16 AM

  That's great news. Someone else's computer is increasingly becoming...not cheap and AWS et al are turning up the cranks on their products for lock in.

• by robswc on 9/15/23, 11:12 PM

  I'm happy for them.

  I've gone so far as on-prem sometimes and its "fun" for awhile but then becomes a headache.

  I really love Digital Ocean's droplets too.

• by CoolCold on 9/16/23, 7:56 AM

  Let's be honest - new waves of CTOs are guys coming with pure dev background. Managing self owned infra, even rented servers is something out of their wish/ability/knowledge, it's an territory of Unknown. From their perspective, potentially saving $1 million per year doesn't worth even trying to step on that territory (which is a good decision by my common sense).

  Bit of stretch from "in theory Linux on laptop is cool, but who knows how will I deal with issues, there - I'd better stick for using Mac, which provides me clear path - buy new model or replacement and I'm golden".

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  And of course they [CTO/C-level guys] better not to talk to that not-a-fellow-dev-guy, wearing beards and wearing sweaters.

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  For lonely dev ("indie"/"solo" developers) companies, what DHH says is not applicable of course - their spending likely too small to have savings of that scale.