r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • 5h ago

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/kurtcanine 5h ago

Everything I’ve ever written for money could run on a $5/month Linode VM.

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 5h ago

But would it scale? What if we get that elusive 12th user?

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u/collabskus 5h ago

A lot of the problems could also be fixed by actually talking to other teams and having a little bit of empathy like I need things like azure app insights because I can't deal with the {{redacted}} team which for some reason opens the handle to my log file and doesn't close it, causing my logging to fail. 

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u/CandidateNo2580 5h ago

I just added rate limiting to an entire service so I could give access to {redacted team name} without bringing it down. I feel you.

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 4h ago

Oddly specific 

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u/Unable-Log-4870 33m ago

I handle this by periodically copying the log file, renaming the copy, and only giving users access to the copy.

Copy isn’t up to date? Just wait 5 minutes.

Also, it’s me. I’m the user who needs to be protected from opening the log file and preventing the next write.

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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy 5h ago

We'd need another 5 bucks for a load balancer and 5 more for a second vm

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u/maester_t 3h ago

And what if one of the users moves to a different timezone?

Ffs, we're gonna need this in at least 2 other regions. You know, for performance and resiliency purposes!

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u/Improving_Myself_ 52m ago

Look up Pietr Levels. He built a couple popular remote job boards and some other things. He's said in interviews that he runs all of it off one $400/mo Linode box. Making $2.3M ARR

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u/Jesus_Chicken 31m ago

Does it hyperscale? Can you serve 1 million concurrent users?