New blog post:
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Paweł Grzybekreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@zachleat this was a very interesting read Zach.
At the company that I work for, we received a surprisingly high bill from Vercel and after looking closely into the usage breakdown we noticed that the number of used cache units is so so so high. Too high to be even possible taking into consideration our revalidation interval and number of pages. Unfortunately Vercel CS is not able to give us a detailed breakdown of where we spent these cache units ️
PS. I love the term „convenience tax” !
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James Millerreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@zachleat There are so many ways to do things in AWS! If you eventually want a friendlier first-party package/deploy story that isn't the result of clicking around the console, check out SAM. Also not sure how many requests per month are hitting it, but you could eliminate API GW in favor of a Lambda function URL and save those costs. Come on in, the water's fine!
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-getting-started-hello-world.html
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:replied to James Miller on last edited by
@james oh fascinating. I’ll definitely have a look at those—I’ve only just started!
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:replied to Chris Hayes on last edited by
@chris_hayes yes! I’ve been looking into some things that help with AWS deployment too (e.g. arc.codes or serverless.com)
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Raymond Camdenreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@zachleat query - you shared an estimated cost on Vercel, what is the estimated cost of Lambda?
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:replied to James Doc on last edited by
@jamesdoc you’re welcome!
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:replied to Paweł Grzybek on last edited by
@pawelgrzybek yeah, more data is needed to justify some of the numbers I was seeing. They didn’t compare with my experience on Netlify or AWS
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:replied to Raymond Camden on last edited by [email protected]
@raymondcamden so far the projected usage is still under the free tier for the month!
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Raymond Camdenreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@zachleat nice! i dont think you mentioned that, i would. (its also 99% possible you did and i missed it.)
btw, _damn_ good article!
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John Christopherreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
https://sst.dev is pretty nice as well.
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:replied to Raymond Camden on last edited by
@raymondcamden thank you! I just pushed a small note about the AWS cost
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Zach Leatherman :11ty:replied to John Christopher on last edited by
@jgchristopher @james very nice! I’ve also been pointed at https://www.serverless.com/ and https://arc.codes/ which seem like similar abstractions
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Stuart Langridgereplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@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.
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Risottoreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
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Joe Lanmanreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@zachleat very nice! Small thing - was playing around and this syntax in your documentation always gives me 404
eg
it works if I add the other url params (size)
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@zachleat also wondering if you considered Cloudflare, I agree AWS is painful
Deploy a Browser Rendering Worker | Browser Rendering docs
By following this guide, you will create a Worker that uses the Browser Rendering API to take screenshots from web pages. This is a common use case for browser automation.
Cloudflare Docs (developers.cloudflare.com)
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Sia Karamalegosreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
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Stefan Baumgartnerreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@zachleat Still baffled on how different the GB-Hrs count is on Vercel 🤯
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Stefan Baumgartnerreplied to Zach Leatherman :11ty: on last edited by
@zachleat Btw. what about the equivalent in EC2 instances that run all year?
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Brian LeRoux 💚replied to Stefan Baumgartner on last edited by
@deadparrot @zachleat roughly $20/mo