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Indian Tech Community
Indian Tech Community

Jul 10, 2026

Cloud Computing & SaaSGCPCost OptimizationServerless

We cut our GCP bill by 35% just by fixing autoscaling — no architecture changes

Our Cloud Run services were scaling to min-instances=1 across 14 services 24/7, most of them barely getting traffic outside business hours. Set min-instances=0 for internal tools and non-critical services and let cold starts happen. Saved about $2,100/month. Lesson: audit your idle floor before you touch anything architectural.

Indian Tech Community
Indian Tech Community

Jul 9, 2026

Cloud Computing & SaaSAWSCost OptimizationCloud

Reserved instances vs Savings Plans in 2026 — which actually saves more for a mid-size team?

We're a 40-person startup on AWS, mostly EC2 and RDS, spend is around $9K/month. Everyone online recommends Savings Plans now over Reserved Instances but the math seems close for our steady workloads. Has anyone actually run both side by side and compared real invoices?

Indian Tech Community
Indian Tech Community

Jul 7, 2026

Enterprise HardwareIoTEdge ComputingHardware

Deploying to Raspberry Pi fleets in the field — what broke first

Rolled out a small fleet of Pi-based sensors for a client's warehouse monitoring project. SD card corruption from unclean power loss was the #1 field failure, not the sensors or code. Moved to industrial-grade SD cards and added a small UPS hat — failures dropped dramatically.

Indian Tech Community
Indian Tech Community

Jul 6, 2026

Enterprise HardwareNetworkingOffice ITSecurity

Setting up a proper VLAN for a growing office network — what we wish we'd known earlier

As the team grew past 20 people, our flat network became a real problem — one compromised laptop could see everything. Segmenting into VLANs for guest wifi, dev machines, and internal servers took a weekend but should have been done on day one.

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