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Well, you folks now made your business super coupled with AWS. I just have 1 word: Oracle
Oh boy, I bet that's costing a new car each month.
I used to hate aws for how expensive their bandwidth and storage was, until I started actually using it last year. I think their new serverless stack is about to leave a lot of devops out of a job. You can setup a a CI/CD pipeline in about half an hour with amplify, at the previous company I remember it taking a good 3 weeks to get CircleCi up and running properly. And then moving a microservice over to it is basical…
How does the cost of DynamoDB (and other components) compares to other options that you considered, especially at scale? Would economics works with the same architecture say at 100X scale?
Good question. At 100x, probably not. At 10x, yes would be better than managing services on our own. By that time, we would have a better prioritized list of which services to self-manage and which ones to leave to AWS. Are you specifically concerned about DynamoDB for some reason?
Well, you folks now made your business super coupled with AWS. I just have 1 word: Oracle
It's pretty obvious that someone at Amazon is watching and voting on this thread because this is absolutely true. This kind of thing is vendor lock-in to the nth degree.
Teams struggled with migration off it. It was a multi year/multi millions project and there is no end to it. And newcomers were saying -> oh, that was a silly idea to use all this stuff (why didn't they used Dynamo :) ), hovewer, 15 years ago it was pretty ok + Oracle solution architects were all over the company.
I don't see how amazon's strategy is different. And I don't get how folks, who are saying Oracle lock was bad, but Amazon is ok, can justify such a thinking.
I will put my money on it, in 10 years those will be good examples of how not to do things. Like, for example, when AWS leadership changes. And internet will be: who would've seen it coming.
Oh boy, I bet that's costing a new car each month.
I used to hate aws for how expensive their bandwidth and storage was, until I started actually using it last year. I think their new serverless stack is about to leave a lot of devops out of a job. You can setup a a CI/CD pipeline in about half an hour with amplify, at the previous company I remember it taking a good 3 weeks to get CircleCi up and running properly. And then moving a microservice over to it is basical…
I may see it in a full-JS app, but I still can't find a good fit for a JS-based backend. I've recently been exploring alternatives to Django for API backends and seriously considering a JS-based framework. I have yet to find one that is all three of: good, simple, in typescript. TypeORM looks excellent for the ORM side but there's still the matter of writing APIs; anything I've looked at (Express, Koa…) is atrociously repetitive compared to Django REST Framework -- NestJS is the best I've found, and it's still miles away.
Oh boy, I bet that's costing a new car each month.
I used to hate aws for how expensive their bandwidth and storage was, until I started actually using it last year. I think their new serverless stack is about to leave a lot of devops out of a job. You can setup a a CI/CD pipeline in about half an hour with amplify, at the previous company I remember it taking a good 3 weeks to get CircleCi up and running properly. And then moving a microservice over to it is basical…
Well, you folks now made your business super coupled with AWS. I just have 1 word: Oracle
It's pretty obvious that someone at Amazon is watching and voting on this thread because this is absolutely true. This kind of thing is vendor lock-in to the nth degree.
I doubt there's any kind of voting cabal, but if folks are participating then they're probably voting according to their inclinations. (I don't vote too much myself, either on comments or articles.)
Any time you invent a new technology with a unique interface, then software built using that technology is coupled to it to some extent. It's actually fairly rare for software components to be so completely interchangeable that you can swap out implementations without changing the software that uses it.
Oh boy, I bet that's costing a new car each month.
I used to hate aws for how expensive their bandwidth and storage was, until I started actually using it last year. I think their new serverless stack is about to leave a lot of devops out of a job. You can setup a a CI/CD pipeline in about half an hour with amplify, at the previous company I remember it taking a good 3 weeks to get CircleCi up and running properly. And then moving a microservice over to it is basical…
>And then moving a microservice over to it is basically 1 command, a few options, mostly just copy over the config from your old express backend with a few changes, and you're done. It's insane.
As a an engineer at a decent sized tech company, this sounds pretty normal, because our infrastructure teams have been providing it (and much more) to service authors via internal APIs/web UIs for much longer than "serverless" has been a buzzword.