Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)

Sure, let's take advices about infrastructure from that guy wo needs a tool to automate postmortems.

I've just look out of curiosity on Appsmith, as the author endorsed this tool as some admin panel builder. I had to double check the name, as right now this is, surprise, surprise, AI powered application builder...

I used to use Replit for educational purposes, to be able to create simple programs in any language and share them with others (teachers, students). That was really useful.

Now Replit is a frontend to some AI chat that is supposed to write software for me.

Is this jumping into AI bandwagon everywhere a new trend? Is this really needed? Is this really profitable?

> “This EC2 instance type running 24/7 at full load is way less expensive than a Lambda running”.

For the same amount of memory they should cost _nearly_ identical. Run the numbers. They're not significantly different services. Aside from this you do NOT pay for IPv4 when using Lambda, you do on EC2, and so Lambda is almost always less expensive.

Infra guys doing DBA is a nightmare in my experience (usually clueless and it gets loved less than more sexy parts of infra). Devs too

Hire a DBA ASAP. They need to reign in also the laziness of all other developers when designing and interacting with the DB. The horrors a dev can create in the DB can take years to undo

Previous discussion (626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313623

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