Why Pinterest Uses the Cloud Instead of Going Solo - To Be Or Not To Be
►http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/2/why-pinterest-uses-the-cloud-instead-of-going-solo-to-be-or.html
I love it when a somewhat older article like Pinterest Cut Costs From $54 To $20 Per Hour By Automatically Shutting Down Systems hits Hacker News and generates a good conversation. One of the common sentiments about the cloud was raised: why doesn’t Pinterest save a lot of money by running their own hardware instead of using the cloud?
Ryan Park, Operations Engineer at Pinterest, responds in what I think is the perfect modern response to that ultimate existential design dilemma:
Source: High Scalability - High Scalability - Todd Hoff