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Amazon 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.
At 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…
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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.
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?
This is terrific, thank you! Have you considered offering the cards as an Anki deck?
Import allowing HTML tags.
Will need a little formatting of the card template for the tags.
PS: Hey Dotan! Been a while, hope you're well
Too much of programming education / online stuff is muddled with millions of media items that cater to absolute beginners.
I rarely come across deep, insightful articles that discuss at-least one level beyond the standard stuff. Any search for any programming related question leads to articles that start from installing Node / Python.
Stackoverflow is an exception though.
At 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…
AWS can definitely be poorly documented and buggy at times.
At 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…
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.
- Repeat soon - Repeat later - Never repeat
Well 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)