Infra cost optimization
Nikolay and Michael discuss some options for reducing costs — from big-effort-big-reward items, to some smaller things that could also be very impactful.
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox (blog post from Andreessen Horowitz)
- OVH
- Hetzner
- postgresql_cluster
- Why we're leaving the cloud (blog post by DHH from Basecamp)
- Managed services vs. DIY episode
- ec2instances.info
- Vantage
- Postgres TV episode with Everett Berry from Vantage
- Migrating to Aurora: easy except the bill (blog post by Kimberly Nicholls from Gridium)
- Database Lab Engine
- Postgres.ai consulting
- Netdata
- sysbench
- fio
- Query macro analysis episode
- Top queries by buffers (Gist from Michael)
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Postgres FM is brought to you by:
- Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai
- Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
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