AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner

Post by EdwardDiego » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 8:25 AM UTC

oh_fiddlesticks wrote: post #74

EdwardDiego wrote: post #44

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If you ever hit an issue with Kafka or Strimzi, go to their Slack, some of the most intelligent people I've ever had the privilege to work alongside will be there, helping you. For 0 money. That kinda free.

I would prefer to say "free of charge", because that support is not actually free, it has a cost, you're just not required to pay for it. But you as well as I know, that what the other participant in this conversation means, is that if a for-profit entity relies on support that is "free of charge" in this way, such that it can continue to profit on the back of their product support, then the for-profit entity really…

My company contributes to FOSS projects we use :)

Post by EdwardDiego » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 8:28 AM UTC

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Or hold off on the academic-style pretentiousness and come back down to the real world. At some point, we have to decide that there's a lot of knowledge expectations depending on your stack, especially as parts of your application grows. Say you're a Python-based webapp running with Postgres, Kafka, and Elasticsearch. Your stack requires pretty decent knowledge of: 1. Postgres 2. Kafka 3. Elasticache 4. Linux (and a…

Counterpoint: stop the sprawl. Use boring technology. Until you’re at quite a high scale, you probably don’t actually need Kafka. There are plenty of much lighter ways to do pub/sub, including Postgres itself. Similarly, if your RDBMS schema is properly defined and your queries are well-written, you probably also don’t need Redis / EC. Re: K8s, if you do need it, I’m not sure why people think that it’s so much easier…

> Until you’re at quite a high scale, you probably don’t actually need Kafka.

As someone who accidentally specialised in Kafka... ...bingo.

So many companies using it who don't need the sheer scale it offers, and get to pay the complexity cost anyway, with no benefits.

Re: AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner

Re: AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner