[parliament32]

Or you could just, ya know, rent a $5/mo VPS? For "your shitty todo app" it will work fine, has predictable scaling, and a built-in hard spend cap. Except you're not locked in to one particular "corporate overlord", because you can run it on literally thousands of different providers.

[sshine]

While this strategy scales to a few thousands of requests per second simply by replacing the VPS by a beefier dedicated box, using the exact same technology and skills, I suspect the allure is dreams of hyperscaling.