How much do you spend on cloud maintenance every month?

@ronak_goyal Thanks, Ronak! The servers need to be always up to prevent cold starts and initial slow response times. They are just docker images sitting inside ec2 instances powered by graviton arm processors. node is not actually bad, you can develop applications in node in one-third of the time compared to low-level languages such as rust, and it has a huge ecosystem of frameworks and libraries (for example, there is a libvips wrapper package: sharp on npm, that can be used to resize and manipulate images. you don't have such high level package in rust yet. the best it gets is image crate with requires custom encoder and decoder for gifs). Many big organizations such as Netflix and Medium heavily make use of node.

@ronak_goyal yeah, if you're working in a fast paced environment and need to ship products fast, node/python is a good choice. I built things with long-term goals, wanted them to be more efficient and reduce the latency. debarring the dns lookup time and other network latency, on my local network, the servers maintain a single digit latency, or a double digit at the worst case even under a heavy load test (each test case includes connection to database, has a tracing layer and a redis connection for rate limiting). when i first started working with rust, i was amazed how efficient and declarative it was. now the real issue here is that you are going to have a hard time to find and hire rust developers, it is a relatively new language compared to java/python. i still use node for quick prototyping and building servers where scaling them is the last priority.