How Much Does It Cost
summary
Covers what is needed to run a decent production service on Node.js: compares hosting options (VDS/VPS/EC2, serverless lambdas, Docker container, PaaS), deployment and rollback strategies (blue‑green, rolling deployments with canaries), and estimates the costs involved.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:08Code to production
- 3:30Node.js app with MongoDB
- 5:15Daemonizing production app
- 7:42Simple deploy fixes
- 9:48Cost of minimal setup
- 11:16Scaling Node.js app
- 12:40Load balancing PostgreSQL
- 14:10Load balancer scaling issues
- 15:34Blue-Green Rolling Canary
- 17:22Deploy data migration issues
- 20:53Cloud cost calculation
- 21:33Heroku Elastic Beanstalk Stage
- 25:09App autoscaling options
- 26:58Cloud functions features
- 29:49Container solutions without Kubernetes
- 31:12VM vs container costs
- 32:59When lambdas are cheaper
- 34:05No perfect solution
- 34:48Q&A
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