Tag: reduced

Amazon Prime Video reduced costs by 90% by ditching Microservices

If any of you have been outside recently, you might have come across streams of salt water, particularly if you live near Silicon Valley. Scientists have finally found the cause of this. Those salty streams and puddles you have been wading through are the tears of the Microservices bros...

How we reduced our annual server costs by 80% — from $1M to $200k — by moving away from AWS

This week we interviewed Zsot Varga, the lead engineer and manager at Prerender.io. He shares how Prerender saved $800k by removing their reliance on AWS and building in-house infrastructure to handle traffic and cached data. “The goal was to reduce costs while maintaining the same speed ...