Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
This is a good list of ways to reduce outgoing bandwidth costs, but as someone who has switched from backend developer to running a small business, I can't help but notice that they don't talk at all about whether any of their cost savings were meaningful to the business.<p>Sure, it looks like they saved about $2000/month, but consider that those savings probably won't even pay for more than a quarter of a one of their developers.<p>Even though their service is free (their parent company gets business value from the aggregate analytics they obtain through their service), it very possible that there's something they could have done to bring more value to their parent company than the money they saved here.<p>Maybe it's unreasonable to expect a company to talk about that in a blog post, but it left me wondering.