@matigo I'm sure Manton's kickstarter is 90% salary and the rest resources. Even $40K is less than half a year's salary :-S
@matigo I don't get angry with ours, but I may in the near future. We're linking our ADs together. :-S
@matigo http://stackoverflow.com/a/35806587
It looks like the t2.micro is only good for about 60-70MBit/s of sustained throughput.
@matigo I'll dig up the graphs somewhere, but I think it caps out at 180Mb/sec at peak, but then goes down slowly after that to somewhere like 60 or 70.
@matigo you have to be careful with the t2.micro's network bandwidth though. if you're serving a lot of big files, it'll get saturated pretty quickly.
@matigo here's a presentation about how slack used this technique https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/AmazonWebServices/secured-api-acceleration-with-engineers-from-amazon-cloudfront-and-slack
@matigo it has to do with the edge locations. Because your connections between the edge and API would ideally be persistent, that overhead is cut down, and the client only has to negotiate the TCP and SSL between them and the closest edge location