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Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by heleninboodler »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #72
heleninboodler wrote: post #70

I really like this app. I only have one minor piece of feedback, and that's that the card wobbling while you're reading the question is very, very distracting.

Thanks for the feedback! The wobbling effect is supposed to resemble the feeling of holding a physical card in your hand. It's supposed to wobble only when you move your mouse from left-side-of-card to right-side-of-card, or when you move your mouse from outside-the-card to over-the-card. Let me know if it's wobbling in unexpected ways on your device. In any case, I'm willing to remove the wobbling effect entirely if…

It's acting "correctly", it just turns out that I tend to move my mouse around the center of the card while I'm reading it, which makes it super obnoxious.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by heleninboodler »

heleninboodler wrote: post #81
baobabKoodaa wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! The wobbling effect is supposed to resemble the feeling of holding a physical card in your hand. It's supposed to wobble only when you move your mouse from left-side-of-card to right-side-of-card, or when you move your mouse from outside-the-card to over-the-card. Let me know if it's wobbling in unexpected ways on your device. In any case, I'm willing to remove the wobbling effect entirely if…

It's acting "correctly", it just turns out that I tend to move my mouse around the center of the card while I'm reading it, which makes it super obnoxious.

Actually, I just played with it some more, and you know what it is? My brain knows the mouse is controlling it, so while reading, I'm unconsciously trying to find a middle spot to put the mouse in a vain attempt to make it sit flat, which has the effect of causing nonstop wobbling. It's like it's designed to irritate me. :D

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by corpMaverick »

shard wrote: post #63
vishnugupta wrote: post #20

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…

Not knowing AWS, this sub-thread reads like a real-life version of the Microservices sketch: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ

LOL. That is not a sketch. I swear it is real life in the back end world. The good news is that now we have Micro front ends for the enjoyment of the UI engineers.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

#85

Post by riffic »

vishnugupta wrote: post #20

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…

I always tell people "stay off AWS unless you or someone you're paying very well on your team holds an Associate-level certification at the very minimum". It's easy to get in over your head over there.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by MonaroVXR »

riffic wrote: post #85
vishnugupta wrote: post #20

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…

I always tell people "stay off AWS unless you or someone you're paying very well on your team holds an Associate-level certification at the very minimum". It's easy to get in over your head over there.

> you or someone you're paying very well on your team holds an Associate-level certification at the very minimum". It's easy to get in over your head over there.

I will never forget the story about the expert Amazon engineer that lost 80K USD.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by drevil-v2 »

MonaroVXR wrote: post #86
riffic wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always tell people "stay off AWS unless you or someone you're paying very well on your team holds an Associate-level certification at the very minimum". It's easy to get in over your head over there.

> you or someone you're paying very well on your team holds an Associate-level certification at the very minimum". It's easy to get in over your head over there. I will never forget the story about the expert Amazon engineer that lost 80K USD.

Sounds like an interesting read. Link please.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by GSGBen »

shard wrote: post #63
vishnugupta wrote: post #20

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…

Not knowing AWS, this sub-thread reads like a real-life version of the Microservices sketch: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ

For anyone skimming the comments and considering skipping this video: do yourself a favor and don't. Krazam's tech comedy is unparalleled.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by MonaroVXR »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #38

This 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

You mean like the DevOps roadmap?

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

MonaroVXR wrote: post #89
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #38

This 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

You mean like the DevOps roadmap?

More like a community knowledge base
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