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Jacob Baloul Oct 8, 2026 · 7 min read

DynamoDB to CouchDB: Why We Left NoSQL for NoSQL

This post is part of our Cloud Exit series. Over more than a decade we paid AWS about $244K, net of credits. Then we rebuilt on servers we own. Earlier posts cover the full cost story and how we swapped Lambda for cron. This one is about the database, and why moving it was the easy part.

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Jacob Baloul Oct 8, 2026 · 8 min read

$244K Later: Why We Left AWS for Our Own Hardware

Our infrastructure now costs about $100 a month to run, on hardware we own. A few years ago, the same company was paying Amazon Web Services an average of about $4,500 a month. In 2025, with most of the move behind us, the cloud bill was still a few hundred dollars a month. Today the cloud is a s...

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Jacob Baloul Apr 17, 2023 · 4 min read

An Intro to AWS CodeStar, The Most Important AWS service you never heard of

In this article, we will learn about AWS CodeStar - arguably one of the most important aws cloud developer tools that most Cloud DevOps engineers are not even familiar with.We will get started with some example AWS CodeStar code & architecture patterns.We will provide links to examples throughout the article.Let's begin! View Our Ai Explainer Video about this post!!Like, Comment, Subscribe to our YouTube Channel, for more Ai explainer videos!What is AWS CodeStar?Think of CodeStar as a wrapper se

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Jacob Baloul Jan 3, 2020 · 2 min read

buzzwords.news v3.0

Introducing the new shiny :: * https://buzzwords.newsNew Features:* More Speed!* More Precision!* Visualization! Motivation:* To measure every word mentioned in todays digital media* Based on this, to calculate the positive / negative sentiment at scale* To hold the media accountable* To gain back wasted time reading through infinite feeds of duplicate / recycled news content Goals:* Precision calculation at scale* Perfecting AutoScaling & ServerLess* Maintaining maximum compute cost efficiency*

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Jacob Baloul May 1, 2019 · 3 min read

The Coupling Point: How I saved $2K/m by Progressively Decoupling Drupal!

Today is an exciting day for me....after years of hard work, i have reached a milestone......i have finally reached "The Coupling Point" ™ The Coupling Point, is the point in your application integration, where you can merge 2 different technologies together, for the purpose of creating a better experience for your application users, and for me, most importantly, how to make your application more efficient for the purpose of cost savings on your application architecture to reduce cloud infrastru

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Jacob Baloul May 1, 2019 · 1 min read

Decoupled Wix

Super App:* WixUI* pureJS fe libs with Serverless backend* d8 rest api or json api

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