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Re: Free for Developers

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Post by jillesvangurp »

paws wrote: post #184
jillesvangurp wrote: post #178

We've been on cloud run for the last six months. We run our monolith (Spring boot) as a Docker service. Cloud build for CI/CD. And Firestore as a not great but free database. We even increased the instance size (1GB, 2vcpus) to deal with memory issues & spring boot and it had no impact on our cost (we are still below the threshold). It's an awesome deal for basically 0$ bills every month (we pay for a few other thing…

> We run our monolith (Spring boot) as a Docker service Does Cloud Run's free tier 'sleep' containers when they don't get regular traffic? Several years back Heroku nerfed their free tier -- they would proactively place low traffic apps into 'sleep' mode so the next request would have a noticeable several second long delay. I ask because our SpringBoot monolith takes 30s to startup, and has bursty traffic, so I was o…

You can set the minimum instances to 1 (default 0) or simply call the service regularly from somewhere. Both approaches work. When it gets killed, we have a 30 second latency on the first request. If you have a busy server, it will pretty much stay up.

I actually only set the minimum instances to 1 a few days ago as we at this point are preparing to onboard some customers.

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by ja27 »

Vaslo wrote: post #118

So question for the masses, I’ve wanted to setup a personal account on Google cloud, azure etc and take advantage of free stuff but I am terrified something will happen and I’ll mess something up or someone will mess it up for me and I’ll be out hundreds on my credit card. Any suggestions here? Great list.

Buy a $25 Visa gift card, spend $20-ish of it elsewhere, and use that for the account. They may post a charge of $1 or so to initially confirm the card.

(I've had success with this in the past but apparently results can vary - some services may block a prepaid card)

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by noisem4ker »

ttt0 wrote: post #181
noisem4ker wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean politicians? Governments play a role in mandating age verification. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779#zippy=%2C...

So on one hand you have GDPR to protect your privacy and on the other they made it so you have to give up your entire identity to them anyways. Brilliant. But let's also not forget that Google is (was?) parsing your banking info from your emails with transactions and purchases, and there wasn't even any option to turn it off.

I think the information they get from your ID isn't supposed to be used other than to set an "age verified" bit on your profile.

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by uberswe »

uberswe wrote: post #5

I seem to be unable to visit the site, I receive an SSL error on multiple browsers. NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID Edit: from Sweden if it matters

Yea, sorry about that. I forgot I had configured a local resolver for .dev domains. in /etc/resolver/dev

The site works fine.

Re: Free for Developers

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Post by fmajid »

eitland wrote: post #48
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love your “free as in free puppy” line. I will have to use it myself in the future.

Just remember that the expensive puppy isn't house trained either when you get it, and it will need just as much attention and eat just as much food as the free puppy. I'm saying this as someone who knows way too much about Oracle databases ;-) Choose a "puppy" you can love. Get it from someone you trust and get one that's right for your situation.

“Free chlamydia” is a better simile for Oracle.
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