Porting InstaBeach to Rust: A 10-Year-Old Play App Goes Serverless

The Japanese yen’s exchange rate took a nosedive this year, and my monthly cloud costs for running a tiny beach recommendation site ballooned from “I can ignore this” to “this is getting silly”. instabeach.io 1 , a site I built a decade ago to help my wife and me find beach destinations based on weather and travel dates, was running on a Kubernetes cluster that started to cost more and more per…