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Your M chip Mac book pro is actually more powerful than the medium or large AWS instances. Just because it runs like a champ on your machine doesn’t mean it’ll run like that on production.

Some really cool stats of which countries hubs are running

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https://warpcast.com/jj/0xfbd55de9

I did an analysis of hubs and the distribution of them and turns out the reason why there are so many hubs in Germany is because Hetzner is so cheap

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net - Regenfrogs.xyz - goldmongers.xyz - Reno NV

the corollary: AWS charges like $300/mo to rent hardware that compares to the toaster you are developing on. cloud hardware comes at a tremendous premium. this includes GCP, Azure, vercel, fly, and all managed DB solutions. if you are on a budget, consider baremetal from day 1.

good reminder that cloud and serverless compute comes at tremendous expense

it's advantages don't always make sense for small projects either

and small can be bigger than people think