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📮 New blog post:

The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless

zachleat.com/web/serverless-co

Chronicling the *wonderful time* I had migrating the beefy 11ty Screenshots API to a new hosting provider.

Zach LeathermanThe Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless—zachleat.comA post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Stuart Langridge

@zachleat “ because usage is priced via GB-Hrs, 1 vCPU should use 1 GB of memory. Instead, 1 vCPU is 1.7 GB of memory and 1000 GB-Hrs is actually 588 Hours of usage.”

You know how washing powder people tell you “use one cup” but the cup they provide you has an almost invisible mark halfway up saying “1 cup” and if you fill the cup it’s actually 1⅔ cups? Yeah.