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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

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183 points crescit_eundo | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | source
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metadat ◴[28 Aug 25 16:16 UTC] No.45053982[source]▶
Fiendishly outlandish idea, incredibly wrong that it should even be possible for the existence of Hoshino to even have ever been a thought, yet here we are. I love it!

On a related note, have you seen the prices at Whole Foods lately? $6 for a packet of dehydrated miso soup. This usually costs $2.50 served prepared at a sushi restaurant. AWS network egress fees are similarly blasphemous.

Shame on Amazon, lol. Though it's really capitalisms fault, if you think it through all the way.

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sneak ◴[28 Aug 25 16:33 UTC] No.45054165[source]▶
Why is it Amazon’s fault that people voluntarily choose to use Amazon?

Even with the massive margins, cloud computing is far cheaper for most SMEs than hiring an FTE sysadmin and racking machines in a colo.

The problem is that people forget to switch back to the old way when it’s time.

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1. mrkeen ◴[28 Aug 25 21:45 UTC] No.45057412[source]▶
Using AWS was supposed the way to avoid the cost of an ops team.

Now every developer also has to be DevOps, learning docker, kubernetes and CI systems instead of just focusing on development.

Also we all still have ops teams.

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2. ranger_danger ◴[29 Aug 25 14:38 UTC] No.45064733[source]▶
False equivalence IMO... devops/docker/CI were not required with "the old way" and neither are they now, why are you thinking that they are?

If your scale requires it, that's fine, but that would have been the case with or without AWS et al.