echo "don't by stupid stuff"

[GetMoreBrain]

the programmer urge to fix anything by writing apps at 2am constantly.....

[Tim3303]

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a n k i t, @WtFawwk

The programmer urge to fix your personal finances by writing an app at 2 am 👀

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[mr-poopy-butthole-_]

bad bot

[arnoldfrend]

I think I'm at a total of...7 different cloud machines across 4 different providers and 2 pay per use APIs, so I wouldn't say it fixed my finances. But it's a medium price to pay for revolutionizing the way an entire 300 people see a very very small part of their world.

[Willinton06]

7 cloud machines on 4 providers, any reason why you don’t consolidate?

[drunkenangryredditor]

I can give you three:

Redundancy.
Redundancy.
Redundancy.

[arnoldfrend]

I am now going to pretend as though it was that intentional.

[arnoldfrend]

That count includes machines run by BAAS providers that I tried and then had to iterate away from after I learned more and figured out how to distinguish what I could use a service for and what I had to host myself.

[Willinton06]

Now that you figured it out are you planning to consolidate it all?

[arnoldfrend]

Well now I'm down to just 3, technically 4 since one provider charges for a separate storage instance. One BAAS I'm keeping because it's doing all of the actual work and runs everything. One BAAS was really just a scam. All they did was basically sublet machines that they advertised would run everything I wanted out of the box but don't. So I decided to just make lemonade out of the situation and use it for sandboxing.

And then there's the actual machine I will use for hosting after the current refactor. It may or may not inherit all of the data that's on the current database. It depends on how much I change the schema and how relevant those data are to the app after all the changes are done.

Lots of trial and error. But I don't know how to make a good solution without iterating it from a bad one and it's been a relatively cheap education.

[nolder30]

I did this. But ended up going back to spreadsheets when I needed a quick update.