AWS usage projections, DevOps solutions, reduction of Staging and Testing nodes, and eliminating redundancies.

Have you guys thought much about leveraging a more decentralized back-end? I recently launched a full node, and have been talking a lot about the decentralization of APIs with people. Notably, my node is quite underutilized -- I'd be happy to help by drawing some traffic.

On a bigger scale, I feel like if we convince witnesses to offer more API support, we could extend this to a fully decentralized scale. I'm sure many other witnesses would be on board providing Devops and infrastructure. We'd need to improve things like jussi, and get some better lines of communication with whomever is currently doing devops for Steemit, but I know in the long run we can do a lot better than AWS.

Changing the culture towards this seems logical to me: decentralized the source of the data, and decentralize the costs.