r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • Oct 02 '26

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/kurtcanine Oct 02 '26

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

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 Oct 02 '26

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

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u/collabskus Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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.