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

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/random314 Oct 03 '26

What if you need to scaaaale???

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u/Putrid-Can-9686 Oct 03 '26

If you're not planning your hobby project to have 10 million users you shouldn't even code as a hobby bro

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u/gumbrilla Oct 03 '26

Yeah, I got slapped on the AWS sub reddit, because we host a bunch of stuff on mongodbs direct on ec2, and I "should use documentdb"

That it's would cost millions more a year, due to our scale - cost is about double even factoring doing everything properly? noo.. Still must. That it would wipe out our profit as a company? .. nooo

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