More than a decade on AWS taught us a lot, and it cost us about a quarter of a million dollars. This series is the honest story of how we brought Buzzwords and RoboTrader home: what we built, what it cost, where we got it wrong, and what we'd do differently. OK, Ready? Let's go…

Chapter 1: $244K Later: Why We Left AWS for Our Own Hardware

Chapter 2: About $4,500 a Month to About $100: The Run-Rate Math of Leaving the Cloud

Chapter 3: Buzzwords: How We Built a News Analysis Platform on Serverless, and Why the Cloud Priced It Out

Chapter 4: Serverless to Cron: Why We Replaced 97 Lambda Functions with a Few Python Scripts

Chapter 5: DynamoDB to CouchDB: Why We Left NoSQL for NoSQL

More to come…