The table "Change In IT Job Market Size - December 2023" seems to indicate that 5.5k jobs were added to the 'job market' in 2023, contradicting what's being said. (Which isn't even representative of total employment in the sector, only the open job postings for the sector).
I've seen this advertised as a similar option for books and podcasts.
https://www.blinkist.com/en
I haven't used it though, so can't vouch for it's effectiveness.
I had these as a kid but in reality at the time I think I was too young to understand the details of what was going on. Many of the components I would accidentally attach a large battery to and let the magic smoke out. I do miss Radio Shack though.
I don't think I like the failure mode of your app getting slower (losing your ApplicationDN) right at the time it's really popular. I don't have a better solution though.
This is tricky since every app has different performance and budget constraints. We try to minimize footguns by starting with sensible defaults. Over time we'll provide more options so you can tune scaling and placement yourself. We're also happy to help if you need!
Don't host in such a way that you're paying for traffic... Hetzner, OVH and Packet all have dedicated servers where you don't pay for the traffic, inbound or outbound.
Edit: judging by other comments here, it might seem like US zone of Fly.io is in fact hosted in Packet so they are probably themselves not paying for the traffic. Maybe they are using Hetzner for the EU zone (or OVH for that matter).
Packet charges for outbound bandwidth. The places you can get close to free on outbound bandwidth don’t give you the ability to do anycast and tend to over subscribe their networks.
We’d like to grt network prices down but we can’t run our service on ovh or Hetzner.
The solution is to set your limit pretty high (100 times your average or so) or, alternatively, have shorter limit intervals - 100 times your daily bill is still a lot less harmful than 100 times your monthly bill.
The only 'real' solution is proper alerting, but even then it's pretty easy to rack up a bill of several thousand dollar before anyone realizes what's going on.
Ads would be terrible but I'm really interested in the whole idea of "do something else when an app os over budget". I hadn't considered much except a 402 status code, which seems kinda mean: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
That isn't a very in depth analysis of the situation. Those tax dollars pay for things like infrastructure and services, that all those new employees will be consuming. I would be interested in seeing a more detailed analysis than what's provided in that post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfME3e7aSNk
The paper describes some experiments that are attempting to profile the technology against magnetic storage drives.