I think it's somewhat disingenuous to compare DevOps requirements of 5-7k/m projects with systems run and operated by companies in the mid market.
That said, something I often wonder about is if you could minus out 100% of the cruft systems run by realistic sized companies, exactly how cheaply could you run them and with what DX? Half of the problem is things built by 100 people with competing and shifting priorities will never result in a clean, tidy, sensible system and it's mighty difficult to minus out the effects that the organization scale has on the end result.
I'm currently working through building a hobby project on that as far as I know will only ever have one user, but I'm enjoying the total freedom to take my sweet time building it exactly as nice as I wish the systems I wrangle in my day job would be and I'm 100% looking to run it for free or as close to free but with as much performance as I can get because why the hell not? It's a totally different ballgame.
That said, something I often wonder about is if you could minus out 100% of the cruft systems run by realistic sized companies, exactly how cheaply could you run them and with what DX? Half of the problem is things built by 100 people with competing and shifting priorities will never result in a clean, tidy, sensible system and it's mighty difficult to minus out the effects that the organization scale has on the end result.
I'm currently working through building a hobby project on that as far as I know will only ever have one user, but I'm enjoying the total freedom to take my sweet time building it exactly as nice as I wish the systems I wrangle in my day job would be and I'm 100% looking to run it for free or as close to free but with as much performance as I can get because why the hell not? It's a totally different ballgame.