I found the flashcards wordy. However, I feel they need to be even more wordy. Acronyms should be resolved, at least once, per card (preferably on the explanation, to aid teaching the acronym)
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#22Amazon has turned developers into consumers. I like the site, I hate how un-hobbyist-friendly the dev world has become.
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#23At 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…
There really ought to be sandbox "default" settings or templates that Firebase has for noobs, instead of configuring everything change by change. I still dread configuring IAM and now just resort to using one big EC2 instead of multiple services.
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#24Are you using a library for the flippable card, or is that all handwritten?
All handwritten. Everything is vanilla JS.
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#25Hi, author here. I'm so happy to see this appear on HN front page! I almost didn't post this on HN as I wasn't sure if there would be interest towards a site like this. I spent so many hours tinkering with the UI and crafting questions that I'm happy to see that people are finding value in it :)
I’m curious, did you build the flash card UI yourself, or use a library? I’m not in the market for studying AWS skills, but I really like the flash card interface!
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#26At 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…
A good starting point is elastic beanstalk, at least, but yes it is a big tangled web and one wonders why one is trying to copy netflix for a simple web app most of the time
if yoyr workload isnt simple though, then its time to pay the price until a better abstraction comes along ^.^
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#27Hi, author here. I'm so happy to see this appear on HN front page! I almost didn't post this on HN as I wasn't sure if there would be interest towards a site like this. I spent so many hours tinkering with the UI and crafting questions that I'm happy to see that people are finding value in it :)
This is neat. What I'm missing though is a static link to a particular card which I can then share with others.
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#28Quite a lovely UI.
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#29Hi, author here. I'm so happy to see this appear on HN front page! I almost didn't post this on HN as I wasn't sure if there would be interest towards a site like this. I spent so many hours tinkering with the UI and crafting questions that I'm happy to see that people are finding value in it :)
I’m curious, did you build the flash card UI yourself, or use a library? I’m not in the market for studying AWS skills, but I really like the flash card interface!
takes a bit of clicking but the repo for the site is at https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/cloudbite
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#30Thanks for sharing this and congrats on the product. BUT: I don't think any amount of flashcards can help me get my head around setting IAMRole's and such, I stay away of amazon's cloud as much as I am able to, when/if I have a choice in the matter.
You would be absolutely amazed how effective flash cards and spaced repetition are at cramming arbitrary information into your head. Once you have definitions and jargon in place, it's significantly easier to learn the concepts and how things go together.