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Er. We did that years ago and it was perfectly normal. Some sort of load balancer appliance (I honestly kinda liked the F5s) on the front, your choice of compute cluster behind it running at least 2 copies of each service (usually on 2 separate hosts). I could be in a bubble but I was always under the impression that that was common, and it never seemed terribly hard.

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Load balancer for app is easy part, harder part is to configure replication and fail over for postgres.

So you are saying when I am able to configure postgres I can earn a $300K salary? Sorry but this is utter bullshit.

I do find it fascinating that we are entering a time now where there are engineers who have _only_ ever used cloud services - and that they can't conceive of a era where _we used to have to do all that stuff ourselves on-prem_.

BTW this isn't a criticism - just an observation - cloud has been around now for that long. Still feels "new" to me :D

I worked in the shop which had all of these ops (app cluster, DB cluster) on premise, and they had 6 high paid people serving this, not just one, and I think there are many companies with their own sites like that.

So, speak for yourself.

> So you are saying when I am able to configure postgres I can earn a $300K salary? Sorry but this is utter bullshit.

did you ever try to configure postgres cluster with failover, and also backup, recovery, monitoring?

Also, I said it is hardest part, but you still need to know your load balancer, security, monitoring, updates, app deployment and configuration stuff.

Yes, this is big chunk of knowledge which in my understanding you don't have, and the topic is that this all worry free replaceable by AppEngine+CloudSql for $100/m if your traffic/data are not very large.

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