a. How many hours would you guess you are saving a month?
b. What takes by a factor of 10 less time on RDS than doing it by hand? What task sees the largest time saved?
Because I always wonder when reading this, what am I missing? What haven't we done? Were we lucky? We were running MySQL and Postgres for multi hundred million EUR companies with millions of users and we did not spend a lot of effort into managing them.
4. Zero effort hot backups, automatic fail-overs, and multiple datacenter deployments
5. Low effort migrations of massive amounts of data between DBs when someone inevitably wants to refactor something
6. Zero effort logging and log aggregation
7. Almost zero effort alerting of issues via sms/email/other
I could go on but I'm on my way to work...
When you're paying engineers north of 150K all of this adds up, and I'd much rather throw the money at Amazon to handle this and pay the engineers to focus on our actual product.
a. How many hours would you guess you are saving a month?
b. What takes by a factor of 10 less time on RDS than doing it by hand? What task sees the largest time saved?
Because I always wonder when reading this, what am I missing? What haven't we done? Were we lucky? We were running MySQL and Postgres for multi hundred million EUR companies with millions of users and we did not spend a lot of effort into managing them.