Super-interesting interview with Zsolt Varga, the lead engineer and manager at Prerender.io. He shares how Prerender saved $800k by removing their reliance on AWS and building in-house infrastructure to handle traffic and cached data.
The goal was to reduce costs while maintaining the same speed of rendering and quality of service. Migrations like this need to be carefully planned and executed, as incorrect configuration or poor execution, would cause downtime for customer web pages and social media clicks and make their search rankings suffer and potentially increase our churn rate.
Title seems misleading. It seems they didn't actually pay that much.
"However, all this data and processes need to happen on a server and, of course, we used AWS for it. A few years of growth later, we’re handling over 70,000 pages per minute, storing around 560 million pages, and paying well over $1,000,000 per year.
Or at least we would be paying that much if we stayed with AWS. Instead, we were able to cut costs by 80% in a little over three months with some out-of-the-box thinking and a clear plan. Here’s how you could too."
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 24.1 ms ] threadThe goal was to reduce costs while maintaining the same speed of rendering and quality of service. Migrations like this need to be carefully planned and executed, as incorrect configuration or poor execution, would cause downtime for customer web pages and social media clicks and make their search rankings suffer and potentially increase our churn rate.
Hmm.
Edit: since this is spam, I’m now wondering what you could have accomplished in that time by learning about how AWS works…
"However, all this data and processes need to happen on a server and, of course, we used AWS for it. A few years of growth later, we’re handling over 70,000 pages per minute, storing around 560 million pages, and paying well over $1,000,000 per year.
Or at least we would be paying that much if we stayed with AWS. Instead, we were able to cut costs by 80% in a little over three months with some out-of-the-box thinking and a clear plan. Here’s how you could too."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053416
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33007873
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036448
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077876
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33400181