Notes
Notes from the studio on building durable, low-cost software — the architecture decisions, trade-offs, and patterns behind systems that stay cheap to run and easy to reason about.
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- 5 min read
Your website should cost almost nothing to run
Most small sites are billed as if a server sits waiting for visitors around the clock. Built on static files and serverless AWS, the real number is closer to a dollar a month.
- hosting
- aws
- cost
- static
- 4 min read
You should own your website — here is what that means
Owning a domain is not the same as owning your website. Real ownership is the source code, the domain, and the hosting account — all in your name, with nothing you cannot walk away with.
- ownership
- lock-in
- handoff
- 6 min read
Serverless, monolith, or microservices: picking the right architecture
There is no winning architecture, only the one that fits your workload. A non-dogmatic look at when serverless, a single service, or microservices each earns its place.
- architecture
- serverless
- microservices
- aws