Comment by iandanforth
2 years ago
For people who enjoyed this post but want to see the other side of the spectrum where self hosted is the norm I'll point to the now classic series of posts on how Stack Overflow runs its infra: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
If anyone has newer posts like the above, please reply with links as I would love to read them.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47... is another good one. There are a few different posts on it scattered around:
https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...
https://world.hey.com/dhh/our-cloud-exit-has-already-yielded...
Related, looks like X is doing similar: https://twitter.com/XEng/status/1717754398410240018