The Cost of Learning
4 pafo 3 7/1/2025, 8:51:56 PM juffalow.com ↗
Comments (3)
mmarian · 8h ago
I've decided never to use AWS for personal projects, it's just not worth it. Happily sitting on my Hetzner $5/month VPS that's running multiple services and DBs.
pafo · 8h ago
How do you learn new stuff? Because not everywhere you can have time for learning and sit in front of Udemy course.
mmarian · 4m ago
Hmm not sure I understand the question/point. You'd have spent more time trying a new technology than if you read blog posts / listened to podcasts created by people who've used it extensively. You also wouldn't learn much about the legitimate tradeoffs either, because you just won't observe them in pet projects - eg how managed DBs are worth it despite the costs, how multiple standalone Lambdas are a pain to handle when it comes to CI/CD, testing, security updates, etc.