Flashcards are my favorite way to learn - specifically to pass a test or gain some certification. I've standardized on a simple format of a google sheet with column A being the front side of the card, and column B being the back - and found a few decent iOS flash card apps that allow me to link to a google doc. So, do you have the whole list of questions in a consumable format I could get into a sheet?
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#32At 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…
This mirrors my experience working with Lambda's - I went the "deploy docker images as lambda's" route and that was mostly OK (I mean it's just node/sharp etc) but the actual setup up - good god, I swear some of that documentation if read aloud would summon Cthulu.
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#33Amazon has turned developers into consumers. I like the site, I hate how un-hobbyist-friendly the dev world has become.
It was the plan all along. Open source is free for big business to embrace and extend, and they used it to turn us into renters.
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#34If you need flashcards for something that should be simple and logical... it's not.
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#35Well done! Thanks for those who needs to pass AWS Certs. But on another side after checking few flashcards it seems you will turn into an AWS Marketing Parrot, more than really learning skills (Eg: question about AWS Shield)
In conversations recently around technical hiring I've found a heavy emphasis on "AWS" knowledge rather than infrastructure know-how or proven experience building on top of any stack.
Sometimes, people don't even know what AWS is except that it is needed by their product. They need someone "strong in AWS." They don't know what AWS products they use or what they do.
Separately, I have had a very senior developer convey a sense of respect for candidates that know AWS things that this developer does not know. I was surprised that the developer would give a pass on any subject so easily.
There seems to be some sort of an implied belief in ability simply because the person can recite Amazon's branded solution names and have configured these things before. In part, because the interviewer doesn't know the buzzwords, they can't probe for the actual depth of experience.
It feels almost like a "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" situation. And on the candidate side a "can't beat em, join em" by being able to recite AWS jargon, regardless of how well you can build and choose solutions to fit business needs.
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#36Flashcards are my favorite way to learn - specifically to pass a test or gain some certification. I've standardized on a simple format of a google sheet with column A being the front side of the card, and column B being the back - and found a few decent iOS flash card apps that allow me to link to a google doc. So, do you have the whole list of questions in a consumable format I could get into a sheet?
You will find the questions here: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/cloudbite/blob/master/conten...
You need to write a small script to transform the questions into a format that's cooypasteable to Google Sheets, though.
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#37Hi, 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!
Thanks! I built the flashcard UI myself with vanilla JS.
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#38This would be fantastic to add to a DevOps wiki/forum that I've been wanting to make for ages. I just never get started because I want it to be perfect and can't decide even what to name the damn thing, much less how it should be organized
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#39Hi, 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 exactly how I studied for hard (theory-heavy) exams at the university! If this would cover >90% of what can come up on the certification exam, I would be willing to pay! Please take my money!
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#40Flashcards are my favorite way to learn - specifically to pass a test or gain some certification. I've standardized on a simple format of a google sheet with column A being the front side of the card, and column B being the back - and found a few decent iOS flash card apps that allow me to link to a google doc. So, do you have the whole list of questions in a consumable format I could get into a sheet?
What iOS flash card apps would you recommend? Thanks!