Being cheap with the cloud
summary
Shows how a conference webapp and a personal blog move from a $60/month MVC site to a static SPA architecture that runs under a few dollars a month (personal blog <$2/month, blob + CDN ≈ $1.60/month), using Azure Static Site hosting and Azure Functions for backend events, durable workflows for eventual consistency, CDNs (Cloudflare/Akamai) for caching, App Insights for monitoring (first 5 GB free), and Azure cost management to avoid catastrophic bills (one org spikes to ~$150k/mo after a naive lift-and-shift).
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chapters (35)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:17What is cheap
- 2:08Aaron Powells background
- 5:19Designing for the cloud
- 7:22Cost isnt just the tech
- 8:09Did it
- 9:59Web platforms
- 10:11Web application architecture
- 11:46Static web sites
- 13:01Hosting static web sites
- 14:32Using a CDN
- 17:59Cost comparison
- 19:47Server
- 20:15Kubernetes
- 21:05Service
- 26:33Service options
- 30:32Data storage
- 31:39Choosing the right cloud
- 32:10Storing data multiple times
- 34:21Multimode storage
- 36:34Hosting options
- 40:31Source control
- 41:49GitHub Actions
- 42:25Pipelines
- 43:04Cost
- 43:25Integration
- 44:34Agile DevOps
- 45:24The reality of development
- 45:56Monitoring platforms
- 48:15Monitoring isnt just about errors
- 48:51App Insights
- 50:35Cost Management
- 54:24Recap
- 57:29Resources
- 58:12Wrap up
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