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Hot take, this is a terrible idea, and is why so much cloud infra is monstrously expensive (and bad).

People need to stop making infra easy. It’s not supposed to be easy, because when you make a bad decision, you don’t get to revert a commit and carry on with life. You don’t understand IOPS and now your gp2 disk is causing CPU starvation from IOWAIT? Guess you’re gonna learn some things about operating within constraints while waiting for a faster disk to arrive at the DC! Buckle up, it’ll be good for you.

I’m fully aware that I sound like a grouchy gatekeeper here, and I’m fine with it. People making stupid infra decisions en masse cause me no end of headaches in my day job, and I’m tired of it.



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