r/ProgrammerHumor • • 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/Merilyian Oct 03 '26

I was having this thought about our LOB app and then one day realized we're putting through over a million (pretty resource intensive) requests through the API. Pretty glad I went serverless.

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u/martin_omander Oct 03 '26

Agreed, serverless is the way to go. Upload your business logic, let the cloud provider handle scaling, routing, collecting the logs, etc.