As much as I like MongoDB as a developer, the last thing I ever want to do is manage a deployment again.
I feel like some of these articles miss a few points, even in this one. The monthly cost of the MongoDB hosting was around $2k... that's less than a FT employee salary, and if it can spare you the cost of an employee, that's not a bad thing.
On the flip side, if you have employee talent that is already orchestrating Kubernetes across multiple clouds, then sure it makes sense to internalize services that would otherwise be external if it doesn't add too much work/overhead to your team(s).
In either case, I don't think the primary driver in this is cost at all. Because that 90% quoted reduction in hosting costs is balanced by the ongoing salary of the person or people who maintain those systems.
I feel like some of these articles miss a few points, even in this one. The monthly cost of the MongoDB hosting was around $2k... that's less than a FT employee salary, and if it can spare you the cost of an employee, that's not a bad thing.
On the flip side, if you have employee talent that is already orchestrating Kubernetes across multiple clouds, then sure it makes sense to internalize services that would otherwise be external if it doesn't add too much work/overhead to your team(s).
In either case, I don't think the primary driver in this is cost at all. Because that 90% quoted reduction in hosting costs is balanced by the ongoing salary of the person or people who maintain those systems.