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   Infracost (YC W21) is hiring software engineers (GMT+2 to GMT-6)(infracost.io)

   1 points by aliscott 1y ago
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   by aliscott 2y ago

   Infracost | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (GMT+2 to GMT-6) | Full-time | €80K - €140K EUR Infracost helps engineering teams understand cloud costs before they deploy infrastructure changes. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer t
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   Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers (GMT+2 to GMT-6)(infracost.notion.site)

   1 points by aliscott 2y ago
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   Infracost (YC W21) is hiring senior software engineers(infracost.io)

   1 points by aliscott 2y ago
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   by aliscott 3y ago

   Great point about the multiple API calls. One of the big problems we’ve heard about using SCPs is that they are too late. If a deployment fails because of them the developer needs to go through another pull request/code review. Estimat
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   by aliscott 3y ago

   Awesome, yeah we’ve seen people using this method and the main complaint we’ve heard is this is annoying for developers since it blocks their deployments when they run `terraform apply`, so they need to create new pull requests and wait for
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   Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer and Software Engineer(infracost.io)

   1 points by aliscott 3y ago
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   by aliscott 6y ago

   (co-founder here) Thanks! We started on this last August, so still pretty early and got a lot more we want to add.
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   by aliscott 6y ago

   Thanks, feel free to reach out if we can help with anything.
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Thanks got it, will contact you when it's live.
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Sure, it's https://twitter.com/leckie . Thanks!
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Great, thanks for the details - supporting these negotiated rates and any custom price books is definitely on our roadmap.
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Thanks, running on self managed clusters or bare metal can save costs in some circumstances, but comes with trade-offs and overheads as well. In our previous company we were managing Kubernetes on bare-metal and what we found was every team
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Do you know if they have public pricing available? Or are you using negotiated rates? If so, we're looking to add support for custom price books in the future.
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Agree, state files can contain sensitive information. We parse the Terraform client side and only send the details to the API that are needed to determine the price, i.e. the instance type, region, etc.
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Yeah! When we started in the cloud cost space about 9 years ago I remember AWS had about 10,000 unique price points... now it's over 2 million! The level of services/options available now is incredible, but that just means the pri
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Azure support is in the works - it's also our most upvoted issue ( https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/64 ). Are you using VMC on Azure as well?
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Thanks! The site design was custom done by a friend of ours.
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    We are free and open source and support more AWS and Google services ( https://www.infracost.io/docs/supported_resources ). We also fit in with existing toolsets - we think it’s important that users don’t need to change
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    You're right. It has to be a balance between the cost of the infrastructure and the developer's time. One feature we have for this is to only show comments in PRs if the cost increase is above a certain threshold. Another idea we
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Haha thanks, great point - will fix!
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Thanks, looking forward to your feedback!
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Thanks! Yeah we think that making the costs visible to engineers will help remove the pain here. We're seeing some big companies like Netflix, Slack and Segment implement dev-focussed approaches to cost-management and think this will b
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Thanks! Yeah we've been in the same situation. Looking forward to your feedback.
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    We cover 70+ resources across AWS and GCP (the tool you mentioned only covers 12 AWS resources) and we support a number of integrations including GitHub Actions and Atlantis ( https://www.infracost.io/docs/integrations&#
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Thanks! Yeah we're big proponents of IaC.
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    Launch HN: Infracost (YC W21) – open-source cloud cost estimator

    190 points by aliscott 6y ago|53 comments
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    by aliscott 6y ago

    Hi HN, author here. I'm looking for feedback from devs/devops engineers on the tool in general as well as: 1. What is your biggest pain point with cloud costs? 2. Any ideas on how to handle non-baseline costs? - data transfer cost
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    Show HN: I'm building a cloud cost tool for Terraform(github.com)

    10 points by aliscott 6y ago|2 comments
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    CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python and TypeScript Support(hashicorp.com)

    8 points by aliscott 6y ago|1 comments