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You can't manage what you don't measure, and this includes your cloud costs. But how detailed should this measurement be? And how will the data translate into impact?
I sat down with Adam Shugar, co-founder and CTO of Dashdive, to discuss his approach to cloud costs. He shared his advice, not only on cost cutting but also technology, growing a startup, the importance of community and more.
29 Jan 2024TRANSCRIPT
SaaS: More than just a business model
Bill Tarr has the most interesting job in the world. He and his team of SaaS Evangelists at the AWS SaaS Factory work with companies large and small to help them build SaaS on AWS.
In this conversation, we discuss the different ways technology and business interact when building SaaS - from cool technical options available only to SaaS companies to the importance of knowing the cost of a tenant. This hour is packed with advice for both the technical and the business side of building a viable SaaS.
Links mentioned in the show:
Prime Day team on observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOYOvp6X10g
Bill Tarr on SaaS Architecture Pitfalls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOYOvp6X10g
WrapStream's architecture: https://youtu.be/ceWOw8rxDOM?si=uECCtW0SJ1Sffqn_
Alcion's zero cost multi-region architecture: https://youtu.be/kJECSpVwM7Q?si=_j9LZWdoA5xpFC3g
3 Jan 2024TRANSCRIPT
Building Streaming on S3
Ryan Worl, co-founder and CTO of WarpStream, is on a mission to re-engineer fundamental infrastructure on top of S3. Starting with metrics at Uber, continuing with Husky - DataDog's platform for events, logs and everything except metrics and then... Ryan thought "it will be cool to re-build Kafka on S3", reached out to other developers to hear their thoughts... and ended up building WarpStream.
In this episode we talk about Ryan's journey, how S3 can fundamentally change the way we design our infrastructure, and why it is a good idea to go in that direction. We talk about S3 vs S3 express. What will be the perfect serverless experience for streams. And finally, tune in at minute 50:00 to get excellent advice on how a SaaS provider should use logs.
Inside a recent episode
Optimizing Cloud Costs for SaaS Startups
Published 4 Apr 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So, should that very specific, very small request and then we kind of roll that up over a very large number of requests, a lot of activity into a kind of BI dashboard that then shows you your usage and the calculated cost based on the cloud provider's billing rules. […]
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