Fun fact: The word "lens" comes from "lentil" (because of the shape).
"Mercek" means lens in Turkish, and similarly it comes from the Turkish word "mercimek" (which means lentil).
Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
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Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#12Fun fact: The word "lens" comes from "lentil" (because of the shape). "Mercek" means lens in Turkish, and similarly it comes from the Turkish word "mercimek" (which means lentil).
haha, thats exactly why i chose the name
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#13Tried it out for a few mins and it does what advertised. I think Electron is perfectly fine for what this app does: Managing ECS. It's not an all-in-one platform the same way VSCode is, so bloating isn't really an issue. On my M2 MacBook pro 64GB, it's sitting at 30.5 Mb of memory usage. JetBrains' toolbox app (Written using Java) is sitting at 505.1Mb and this app arguably does more than that one, if not an equal am…
thanks for the feedback!
This isnt built with electron actually
It's Rust and React using a framework called Tauri
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#14Neat, but this feels to me like buying a single-use kitchen gadget. Yes, the console does not have everything neatly together like this, but it can manage everything across all AWS services. Having to deal with a separate (electron) app for every AWS service would be a nightmare.
This isnt built with electron, it's built with Rust and React using Tauri
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#15I want to try this, but unfortunately there are just too many Electron applications on my computer now. I literally cannot run anymore without slowing everything down. This is something which other software makers need to start considering. There's actually limited RAM now on machines. Codex and Claude Desktop both are gigantic memory hogs. And they leak memory all the time, but they provide value which is quite high…
It's not an electron app
Its built with a Rust framework called Tauri
Memory usage is highly optimized
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#16This is great, and will be keen to have a look at helping for Linux support you have planned. ECS is one of the better products AWS has produced IMO. It has its warts, but it has made very intentional trade offs between simplicity and control/flexibility, and for a very large amount of use cases, I think they have made some really good choices. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#17Tried it out for a few mins and it does what advertised. I think Electron is perfectly fine for what this app does: Managing ECS. It's not an all-in-one platform the same way VSCode is, so bloating isn't really an issue. On my M2 MacBook pro 64GB, it's sitting at 30.5 Mb of memory usage. JetBrains' toolbox app (Written using Java) is sitting at 505.1Mb and this app arguably does more than that one, if not an equal am…
> it's sitting at 30.5 Mb of memory usage
Tauri uses the webview provided by the OS instead of bundling a full Chrome installation. The downside is that it may not look the same on all platforms.
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#18Neat, but this feels to me like buying a single-use kitchen gadget. Yes, the console does not have everything neatly together like this, but it can manage everything across all AWS services. Having to deal with a separate (electron) app for every AWS service would be a nightmare.
Do one thing and do it well, right?
Define "one". If AWS is a single service, then this tool does 1/100 things.
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#19This is great, and will be keen to have a look at helping for Linux support you have planned. ECS is one of the better products AWS has produced IMO. It has its warts, but it has made very intentional trade offs between simplicity and control/flexibility, and for a very large amount of use cases, I think they have made some really good choices. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Will appreciate the Linux support, glad you like it
Re: Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
#20Neat, but this feels to me like buying a single-use kitchen gadget. Yes, the console does not have everything neatly together like this, but it can manage everything across all AWS services. Having to deal with a separate (electron) app for every AWS service would be a nightmare.
The cross cutting concerns with ECS + ALB + ASGs + Capacity providers + target groups + EC2 instances + launch templates means that ECS is somewhat central to the larger context of your hosted system. I really like ECS, but AWS have done a poor job of presenting all the linked parts stemming from ECS that this app actually tries to solve. Yes, it wraps several services to achieve this because it has to, but ECS is central enough that having an app like this to show things in a more contextualized way I think can be extremely useful.