[External] understanding DynamoDB pricing
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set up a microservice in 5 minutes with Serverless
tl;dr: write serverless infrastructure as code
cost: $0
build time: 5 minutes (MVP)
overview
Serverless, confusingly, means two things.
There's serverless the concept - your infra provider dynamically spins up compute at invocation time and (spins it down after). This means no more worrying about managing (or scaling) compute - it's …
set up email sending (anywhere)
tl;dr: How to set up AWS Simple Email Service, through which you can send emails via many invocation methods
cost: $0 per first 62k emails/mo
build time: 60 minutes (MVP) + 2 days wait to get out of sandbox
Every SaaS product at scale leans heavily on email for …
set up Google Sheets APIs (and treat Sheets like a database)
tl;dr: set up programmatic reads and writes from any Google Sheet you have access to
cost: $0
build time: 15 minutes (MVP)
Let's start with a hot take to get the blood boiling.
Google Sheets is (probably) the most important database your company uses.
Why?
Every single employee can …
set up Twilio SMS to Email
tl;dr: set up a pass-through phone number that forwards to anywhere
cost: $0.0075 per inbound SMS
build time: 15 minutes (MVP)
overview
Think of all the times you've had to submit a phone number to get a promotional code, or an ebook download, or the love of your …