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silisili on July 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word f...

Weird, I just begrudgingly went from Postgres to Dynamo because it was so much cheaper. We're not huge scale though, so I'm wondering where the costs start to diverge the other way.

kadoban on July 21, 2023 | [–]

With Dynamo it seems to depend a lot exactly what you're doing. If you're careful about your queries, it's pretty cheap.

eropple on July 21, 2023 | [–]

This was, 2012 and we were hitting read and write limits regionally.

It was not a wise plan. It did, however, run. Technically.

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