Infra cost optimization | Postgres.FM 030 |
Michael and Nikolay 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) https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-c...
OVH https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/
Hetzner https://www.hetzner.com/
postgresql_cluster https://github.com/vitabaks/postgresq...
Why we're leaving the cloud (blog post by DHH from Basecamp) https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-l...
Managed services vs. DIY episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/managed-...
ec2instances.info
Vantage https://www.vantage.sh/
Postgres TV episode with Vantage • Everett Berry, Vantage – cloud cost o...
Migrating to Aurora: easy except the bill (blog post by Kimberly Nicholls from Gridium) https://gridium.com/migrating-to-auro...
Database Lab Engine https://github.com/postgres-ai/databa...
Postgres.ai consulting https://postgres.ai/consulting
Netdata https://www.netdata.cloud/
sysbench https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench
fio https://github.com/axboe/fio
Query macro analysis episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/macro-qu...
Top queries by buffers (Gist from Michael) https://gist.github.com/mchristofides...
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