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I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%

29 pointsby odileloftoday at 3:20 PM8 commentsview on HN

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exabrialtoday at 9:20 PM

A rewrite is always better... I bet you could rewrite in bash with fastcgi and get an improvement

pjmlptoday at 7:44 PM

Well, another one discovering strongly typed compiled languages.

Apparently Tiger Beetle also started in node, before the founder reached out for Zig.

Meanwhile all JavaScript tooling is being rewritten in Go and Rust.

Maybe it is time to finally grasp it should be left to the browser?

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abdullah2993today at 7:27 PM

You never mentioned what is this BE for?

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mywittynametoday at 8:59 PM

Did you keep RDS Postgres?

saejoxtoday at 9:49 PM

another good target for ai rewrite: getting out of serverless cost hell.

it used to be a gigantic endeavor. now a few days work.

odileloftoday at 3:20 PM

Tuesday, October 3rd, 9:17 AM. I'm sipping my coffee, opening the AWS console like I do every morning. Except this time, I almost spat it all over my keyboard.