It's wild to me that we are talking about a site running on a single 2 core VPS costing $15/mo and the developer didn't stop to consider that maybe they <i>don't need Kubernetes</i> for this. Like...just run your damn services on the box like we've been doing since web hosting first became a thing.
As an SRE who’s moved between a few companies recently, I’ve noticed a trend towards simpler infrastructure options rather than k8s. Most places I interviewed at used AWS with just fleets of EC2s managed through ASG and instance refresh.<p>Deployments are no downtime. It’s pretty nice and if you want to run with docker on the host instances you can but you can also just install the application using systemd.
The time investment here doesn’t really make sense to me. That 70% savings was actually only $33 a month.<p>Was it really worth spending that dev time and effort for such a small return rather than the product itself?<p>And yea now you get to manage your own cluster… thats an ongoing cost too, not free.
I should write a blog about how I saved the same amount in absolute terms by turning off the stuff i forgot is running in the cloud.<p>Side note: the anime girls all over is kind strange. Like the header is giant cartoon tits? Why?
Seems strange to have used CockroachDB but not leverage any of the distributed nature of it? I was looking forward to some interesting database problems in this article, but it was quite anticlimactic.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.