> They could easily save 60% on their monthly bill. That would enable them to hire 1 or 2 engineers capable of maintaining a few dozen servers on AWS, DO or GCP.
If they reduce their bill and then hire engineers to do the same job they've gained nothing other than an increased headcount for no discernible benefit.
I think what the repliers missed from OC was that using that extra money for devops people will then allow even more savings after having consolidated down from Heroku to AWS/GCP/DO etc.
If they reduce their bill and then hire engineers to do the same job they've gained nothing other than an increased headcount for no discernible benefit.