The Night Shift Strategy for Cloud Savings Your Non-Prod Environments Are Burning Money While You Sleep A typical engineering team works 8 to 10 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Their dev and staging environments run 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. That means non-production infrastructure sits completely idle for 128 hours every week while still generating charges. The Flexera
I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora