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How we’ve saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database (hivekit.io)

submitted 7 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What has changed though, is that we’ve replaced our $10k/month Aurora instances with a $200/month Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume.

Holy shit, I hope whoever wrote this gets a fat bonus at the end of the year. That's a truly astounding savings.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What they don’t say is how much in developer time they’ve spent rolling their own database. Then there’s also maintenance and new features.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 18 points 7 months ago

It's called job security, bro.

[–] FalseMyrmidon@kbin.run 17 points 7 months ago

I'm sure their custom database will be easy to find people to support and maintain

[–] FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

It seems like features would be mainly additional key/values like temperature, humidity, etc. This wouldn't really change the underlying infrastructure greatly but still give good enhancements to certain customers.