Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by JB_Dev 795 days ago
The time investment here doesn’t really make sense to me. That 70% savings was actually only $33 a month.

Was it really worth spending that dev time and effort for such a small return rather than the product itself?

And yea now you get to manage your own cluster… thats an ongoing cost too, not free.

3 comments

This is what I always think. People will spend $10,000 on engineering time (2 engineers working ~1.5 weeks) to save $500, that then turns into a COST later because they have to spend more on maintenance.
Now they get to write an article about it.
Yeah feels a bit disingenuous to title the article “70%”. While correct, it elicits the thought of a much more interesting migration than what actually happened.