Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by jeffbarr » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 8:37 PM UTC

This is cool, and closes a huge loop for me.

Before joining Amazon in 2002, I built and ran Syndic8, a side project site that collected, polled, and organized RSS and Atom feeds for easy discovery. In addition to the web UI, Syndic8 featured a comprehensive web service API, powered by the then-popular XML-RPC protocol.

Syndic8 was built on PHP and MySQL and hosted at a colo provider. I was never able to scale beyond a single instance at my colo, and have sometimes thought about how I would rebuild the site today using EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and so forth.

My operational experience with XML, RSS, and web services was (I was later told) a deciding factor in the decision to hire me.

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by NicoJuicy » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

Nice implementation of RSS! I am dogfeeding something very similar to this.

I actually wanted to see how fast i could set up something similar and this is what i came up with : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/ ( i will delete it soon fyi)

AWS: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS

Azure : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops

GCE: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce

Cloudflare : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=cloudflare

You're layout is way more organized and "use-case" specific though! Very nice

Just a heads-up though. I didn't see a monetization strategy behind my side-project and it does a lot more than what is "shown" now.

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by threentaway » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

Dunedan wrote: post #4

AWS actually isn't that bad when it comes to RSS feeds: Their official blog offers an RSS feed [1], but even better: each of their forum sections [2] offers a (quite hidden) RSS feed with all announcements in that section, which is quite handy if you're interested in news for a particular service only. For example here is the RSS feed for S3 announcements: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss/rssannounce.jspa?forumID=2.…

My team pipes some of these feeds along with others that we care about into a Slack channel. It works really well for staying on top of new releases.

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by davidstoker » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 9:25 PM UTC

threentaway wrote: post #13

Dunedan wrote: post #4

AWS actually isn't that bad when it comes to RSS feeds: Their official blog offers an RSS feed [1], but even better: each of their forum sections [2] offers a (quite hidden) RSS feed with all announcements in that section, which is quite handy if you're interested in news for a particular service only. For example here is the RSS feed for S3 announcements: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss/rssannounce.jspa?forumID=2.…

My team pipes some of these feeds along with others that we care about into a Slack channel. It works really well for staying on top of new releases.

I've done the same thing for a while on Slack subscribing to this feed to get notified about all new announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/

A little noisy at times but it has definitely helped me keep up to date on things.

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by matthieuchabert » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 10:44 PM UTC

jeffbarr wrote: post #11

This is cool, and closes a huge loop for me. Before joining Amazon in 2002, I built and ran Syndic8, a side project site that collected, polled, and organized RSS and Atom feeds for easy discovery. In addition to the web UI, Syndic8 featured a comprehensive web service API, powered by the then-popular XML-RPC protocol. Syndic8 was built on PHP and MySQL and hosted at a colo provider. I was never able to scale beyond…

Thanks for your comment. It put things in perspective, i was 5 years old in 2002.

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by stanislavb » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:23 PM UTC

I love this RSS movement resurrection.

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

#17

Post by julien » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:14 AM UTC

Think about making these feeds realtime with Websub :)

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

#18

Post by forgotmypw17 » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:50 AM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #12

Nice implementation of RSS! I am dogfeeding something very similar to this. I actually wanted to see how fast i could set up something similar and this is what i came up with : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/ ( i will delete it soon fyi) AWS: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=AWS Azure : http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=azure-devops GCE: http://cloudnews.sapico.me/Home/ByTag?Name=gce Cloudflare : http:…

That's a great demo! Thank you for sharing it.

I especially like "your tags" feature.

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by asdff » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 2:52 AM UTC

stanislavb wrote: post #16

I love this RSS movement resurrection.

it never really went away

Re: Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS

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Post by earthboundkid » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 3:00 AM UTC

stanislavb wrote: post #16

I love this RSS movement resurrection.

As formats, RSS and Atom are bad. JSONfeed is better, but still not ideal. The NinJS format (News In JSON) is pretty much ideal, but no one uses it, sadly.