I just see a log? Is it like a captains log?
dimeslime
joined 2 years ago
Used to work in garden/hardware supply company. The best selling product cost $16 for manufacturing and delivery to our warehouse from China. They would sell in [national hardware chain] for $699. It was about a 40% markup in store, the rest of that $699 was eaten up by warehousing, shipping and staffing costs. If you couldn't move that product in a reasonable timeframe then you'd start losing money on warehouse costs.
I figure most items I've purchased are 40% profit, 50% warehouse/shipping/staffing, 10% manufacturing/import.
I need to show people I work with how little hardware you can use to serve this much traffic. We do around 500/second but our monthly EC2 spend is horrendous for the scale of traffic we get. But rails is what it is...
I think you have it all covered, but are there ways people can contribute with time? I'm mostly k8s focused these days though.