

in an AWS deployment where each upgrade to the system means new machines get spawned and the old ones – deleted). This is taking up space and it means more manual maintenance.įor server-side applications the impact is probably smaller, as it is entirely under your control and you can regularly cleanup the data, or even don’t care, as you regularly re-create the machine (e.g. I found tons of unused temp files which applications (android apps, desktop applications and even server application deployments) haven’t cleaned.

I’ve been spring-cleaning some devices and the obviousness of the advice in the title seems questionable.
