Comment by gamerDude

When I'm working with new developers I always have to convince them to simplify their setup. Why are we on autoscaled, pay by the query infra when we are serving a few people. Then they complain how expensive it is. I had someone tell me that their costs were $1500/mon when they were in demo stages. I asked them why they aren't hosting on a single small server for $20. And they responded that it didn't matter because they were using free credits.

Except that those free credits will go away and you'll find yourself not wanting to do all the work to move it over when it would've been easier to do so when you just had that first monolith server up.

I think free credits and hyped up technology is to blame. So, basically a gamed onboarding process that gets people to over-engineer and spend more.