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Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

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804 points jryio | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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jeandejean ◴[22 Oct 25 05:51 UTC] No.45665319[source]▶
Having been in the industry for 20 years, I can remember we were processing high loads with... Algorithms. It wasn't a cloud cost saving initiative back then, but a necessity if you had scale, you could just not throw money at scaling. Feels like we shifted optimization from algorithms to cloud costs savings...
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1. chickensong ◴[22 Oct 25 21:16 UTC] No.45675244[source]▶
Not just cloud costs. Look at how insanely powerful modern hardware is, yet software performance is... questionable. At least some of us have fast internet to download those 50mb js bundles before a web page loads.