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🌟 Pump.co is Playful! 😋🌟 At Pump.co, we embody P.U.M.P: **P** = Proactive **U** = Unity **M** = Merit **P** = Playful Join us on this journey where we mix business with a bit of joy! #WorkHardPlayHard

Celebrating yet another milestone at Pump.co, thank you focal Sydney Wasikowski Pascal Unger Daniel Darling for sending this and making our day! PS. We are celebrating $🤫M in ARR, I’ll let you guess.. (and it’s not a 1 🥳)

Keeping cloud costs under control while serving millions of users! In our latest blog, we discuss strategies to reduce your AWS bill without compromising on performance or reliability.

Pump.co Offsite Day 1 at the Mile High! 🤩 We made a trip out of it from San Francisco to Denver and altitude isn’t the only thing that’s high—our spirits are too :D

Keeping in line with the last post, this is how we reduced our AWS costs (2021-2024). Points are color-coded as per the attached image. 1. Large to small 🟦🟥 Everyone believes they are going to get 50 million users the moment their app hits prod. But I implore you to memorize the following code. If company.isFunded('Series A') { instance.set('Large') } else { instance.set('Small') } Cost me a few lakhs to learn this. Totally worth it. 2. On-demand to reserved 🟦 I have heard serverless scales infinitely. Well, it does scale your costs infinitely. Reserve your instance. Then ask AWS for a discount. 3. Filestore to CloudWatch 🟧 Our system logs were stored for years. Our server's file store was bloated. Now we send them to Cloudwatch, which retains them for three days. Then it's asta-la-vista, baby. 4. ElasticSearch to Postgres 🟪 Why did I even spin up these instances? I thought our discussion forums would need "text search capabilities". Well, since I don't need to do DNA matching on the comments, the cost of ElasticSearch was prohibitively high. Instead, we moved our text search to the browser. Using javascript :D BLASPHEMY! -------------------------------------------- These experiences have helped us appreciate the practical aspect of designing systems (which often comes up during live classes at InterviewReady). If you are a startup founder, I wish you all the best! Cheers! #AWS #CostManagement