Fear Of Flying
summary
Argues that handing low-level work to AWS often improves safety and frees teams to focus on product metrics, with concrete numbers: Boston–Seattle driving fuel ~$692 vs flights $219–$518, simple Lambda estimate $0.55 ballooning to ~$276 after rounding and memory bumps, and 100 req/s moving lambda cost from $1.09 to $109. Uses CloudFormation, Lambda, EC2, RDS, ELB, S3 and API Gateway, notes m4.large ×2 production minimum and Lambda billed by duration and per-invocation, and reports cases of both 2× cost and 85% savings depending on prior stack and ops headcount.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:05Why this talk
- 2:55Accidents and failure myths
- 8:38Cost comparisons and realities
- 17:35Productivity and value focus
- 23:51Core value and differentiation
- 26:39Conclusion and takeaways
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