On: Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almo...

[walrus01]

fine, buy two identical ones. and set up proper backups. or even make the backup a hot-spare.

if it's a test/development system that's meant to possibly break, you shouldn't be driving anywhere at 0300 in the morning anyways.

[wrkronmiller → walrus01]

That implies you are going to be running prod in the cloud. Unless you're developing against purely synthetic data, the data transfer costs are potentially astronomical.