Spending in the Clouds
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English - November 19, 2019 13:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 200 ratingsManagement Business entrepreneur technology business small business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Basecamp has cut back its reliance on Amazon and Google, but there's one area where it's tough to find alternatives to Big Tech: cloud services. Even so, there are ways to cut spending on this $3 million annual expense while keeping the company's apps running smoothly. In this episode, Blake Stoddard on Basecamp's Ops team talks about how he volunteered to look for savings on cloud services and really delivered—to the tune of over a half-million dollars.
Show Notes
Blake Stoddard on Twitter - 1:27
AWS Lambda - 4:45
The Reddit hug of death is also known as the Slashdot effect - 4:55
Maybe Roxane Gay can save us from our cord-cutting dystopia - 15:49