A handful of peanuts a day to avoid dying in the event of (accidental, inadvertent) exposure sounds like a pretty good deal! I think that's the value here:
> "It's a wonderful feeling," Chris says. "I'm no longer afraid of dying."
It costs money to serve S3 objects out to the internet though. S3 GET request billing + the usual AWS egress fees, after you've burned through the free quotas. Egress is currently $0.09 per GB + tax.
It seems like a good move. The Tao was a big single document with heavyweight edit/revision burden, which probably made more sense when it was updated by publishing a new RFC, as if it were a print publication.
Maybe if you're billing with a paper and pencil, mailing out invoices, and you have to drive a bag of checks over to the bank.
BuildKite is an orchestration SaaS, they don't even own or run the hardware the agents are on. If it costs them $9/mo/user to manage that most of the C-suite should be fired.
You'd be surprised how many firms have subscriptions to billing insights, know-your-customer, fraud detection and other similar services. Many of the "AI" companies that are emerging do such things.
Traditionally at Cloudflare, Birthday Week is the "release new products" week; they're not writing announcements for products that they've already shipped, but rather Birthday Week is the deadline every year for a ton of big new products that are being built.
> "It's a wonderful feeling," Chris says. "I'm no longer afraid of dying."