Just don’t use AWS. There are other options out there that do not lock you in like this. Adding environment specific complexity that is tangled to AWS is to avoid by all means.
Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
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Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
#72I really like this app. I only have one minor piece of feedback, and that's that the card wobbling while you're reading the question is very, very distracting.
Thanks for the feedback! The wobbling effect is supposed to resemble the feeling of holding a physical card in your hand. It's supposed to wobble only when you move your mouse from left-side-of-card to right-side-of-card, or when you move your mouse from outside-the-card to over-the-card. Let me know if it's wobbling in unexpected ways on your device.
In any case, I'm willing to remove the wobbling effect entirely if this feedback is echoed by other people.
Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
#73At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done. To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC…
Sometimes I wonder if the old world where you had to buy computers and drive to the datacenter at 3 in the morning to replace dead hard drives was really so bad. I guess it was really so bad. Everything you have to build for yourself in the cloud is something you probably needed in your self-hosted stack -- a directory of users, permissions (and escalation), firewall rules, SSH key material, etc. I feel like no matte…
I think the primary concerns with what App Engine started out as were flexibility and vendor lock-in.
Feels like it is a very solvable problem, though. Only a matter of time.
Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
#74At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done. To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC…
I felt your pain when I read that. If it's of any help, I can promise you that creating a Terraform configuration to set this up will improve your life, happiness and general well being in the future. Yes, Terraform has a learning curve, but it's also a black magic effery for the cloud.
second this, terraform is a game changer if you are using aws (or any of the other clouds, it supports multiple backends)
Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
#75At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done. To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC…
I ran into the same problem. kicked out s3 and ended up using seaweedfs. couldn't be happier. coding instead of reading aws documentation.
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#76I have been building my own SRS flashcard web app, targeted specifically for language learning. Your implementation, UX-wise, is similar to mine (e.g. I have nearly identical "flip" transition"). Your use of icons is nicer, and the color scheme you chose is excellent. I like the trade that you made of not having persistent accounts. I wrestled with that idea for a portion of my site that features "pre canned" decks.…
Why not just use Anki? It's mature, and plenty of decks exist for language learning. I've been using it for ~4 years or so now and nothing else has really come close in terms of features or stability.
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#77Amazon has turned developers into consumers. I like the site, I hate how un-hobbyist-friendly the dev world has become.
You hear horror stories of students/hobbyists playing around with AWS Lambda or some other service and ending up with huge bills. Maybe they get resolved but I certainly don't want to deal with the panic of misconfiguring some setting and losing a chunk of my savings. I'll use this stuff at work if needed but it certainly cools me on playing around with it in my spare time, which is how I best learn new tech.
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#78Ive been using AWS for a couple years at work now.. never ran into difficulties where flashcards/spaced repetition woulda helped. For example, I don't think you need to memorize IAM privileges or stuff like that. Maybe I'm just working on not so complex things?
Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills
#79Ive been using AWS for a couple years at work now.. never ran into difficulties where flashcards/spaced repetition woulda helped. For example, I don't think you need to memorize IAM privileges or stuff like that. Maybe I'm just working on not so complex things?
This flashcard set is mainly intended to pass certificate exams. Spaced repetition with flashcards is an efficient method to memorize and retain information. When you're actually working on stuff, you don't need to memorize information, because you can google stuff and learn as you go. When you're doing an exam, you can't google, so you need to memorize information.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes I wonder if the old world where you had to buy computers and drive to the datacenter at 3 in the morning to replace dead hard drives was really so bad. I guess it was really so bad. Everything you have to build for yourself in the cloud is something you probably needed in your self-hosted stack -- a directory of users, permissions (and escalation), firewall rules, SSH key material, etc. I feel like no matte…
I think the primary concerns with what App Engine started out as were flexibility and vendor lock-in. Feels like it is a very solvable problem, though. Only a matter of time.
IMHO Cloud Run (Knative) is a pretty decent "next generation App Engine" without vendor lock-in.