Bookmarks tagged “cloud”

18 bookmarks tagged “cloud”

A Map of Sync

A Map of Sync

· stack.convex.dev

We can categorize sync platforms across nine dimensions: data size, data update rate, the structure of the data, input latency, offline support, numbe...

American data spies will never care where the servers are

American data spies will never care where the servers are

· world.hey.com

In the two years since the European Court of Justice invalidated the Privacy Shield concept, European companies have been scrambling to pretend to comply with the ruling, without changing anything consequential about how they use American internet services. The erroneous consensu

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

· world.hey.com

The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too.

Don't be fooled by serverless

Don't be fooled by serverless

· world.hey.com

Cloud aficionados love pinning the true promise of the cloud on serverless functions and services. Not getting the savings you thought you would with the cloud? It's because you didn't go serverless. Frustrated with the complexity of the cloud? Serverless! Performance questions?

The Big Cloud Exit FAQ

The Big Cloud Exit FAQ

· world.hey.com

Just over a year ago, we announced our intention to leave the cloud. We then shared our complete $3.2 million cloud budget for 2022, and the fact that we were going to build our own tooling rather than pay for overpriced enterprise service contracts. The mission was set! A month