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Re: AWS BugBust

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Post by theden »

Sheepzez wrote: post #19
theden wrote: post #6

I'm struggling to find a compelling reason why someone would participate in this? Looking at https://aws.amazon.com/bugbust/ the prizes are yet more corporate trash that don't need to exist ("AWS BugBust Varsity Jacket" okay ), and they have a pricing page so it's not even free. All this tells me is that Amazon doesn't value your time

> they have a pricing page so it's not even free BugBust itself is free. You pay for usage as per normal for CodeGuru Reviewer and CodeGuru Profiler (after the 30 day free trial of BugBust and 90 day free trial of Profiler).

Not sure if you have to use CodeGuru with BugBust, they don't clarify.

>(after the 30 day free trial of BugBust and 90 day free trial of Profiler).

So it's not free, dev time is expensive and has a lot more value than their proprietary service usage time—so they're coming out on top whilst charging people for it.

Re: AWS BugBust

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Post by [deleted] »

mdaniel wrote: post #13

When I read the announcement, I thought they were donating the use of CodeGuru to projects (which I presumed would be limited to open source ones) to (1) improve the code hygiene of the world (2) gather more data for their machine learning models (3) publicity for CodeGuru But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point Co…

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Re: AWS BugBust

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

mdaniel wrote: post #13

When I read the announcement, I thought they were donating the use of CodeGuru to projects (which I presumed would be limited to open source ones) to (1) improve the code hygiene of the world (2) gather more data for their machine learning models (3) publicity for CodeGuru But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point Co…

Quite frankly I've never seen people use AWS offerings for CI pipelines, I wonder if other products (Code* family) are any good - can anyone comment on them? I've only used CodeCommit once during a hackathon, and it seemed rather basic.

Re: AWS BugBust

#24

Post by mercora »

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #23
mdaniel wrote: post #13

When I read the announcement, I thought they were donating the use of CodeGuru to projects (which I presumed would be limited to open source ones) to (1) improve the code hygiene of the world (2) gather more data for their machine learning models (3) publicity for CodeGuru But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point Co…

Quite frankly I've never seen people use AWS offerings for CI pipelines, I wonder if other products (Code* family) are any good - can anyone comment on them? I've only used CodeCommit once during a hackathon, and it seemed rather basic.

CodeDeploy fails in horrible ways and the maintainers are somewhat unresponsive. I don't use it anymore but am still subscribed to some issues which apparently weren't fixed for years...

Re: AWS BugBust

#25

Post by calpaterson »

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #23
mdaniel wrote: post #13

When I read the announcement, I thought they were donating the use of CodeGuru to projects (which I presumed would be limited to open source ones) to (1) improve the code hygiene of the world (2) gather more data for their machine learning models (3) publicity for CodeGuru But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point Co…

Quite frankly I've never seen people use AWS offerings for CI pipelines, I wonder if other products (Code* family) are any good - can anyone comment on them? I've only used CodeCommit once during a hackathon, and it seemed rather basic.

I have. Their offerings are even less impressive than many of the popular SaaS CI servers, which themselves are usually (and incredibly!) inferior to Jenkins - except they maintain themselves due to all the cloud whatnot

Re: AWS BugBust

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Post by rplnt »

garblegarble wrote: post #16
theden wrote: post #6

I'm struggling to find a compelling reason why someone would participate in this? Looking at https://aws.amazon.com/bugbust/ the prizes are yet more corporate trash that don't need to exist ("AWS BugBust Varsity Jacket" okay ), and they have a pricing page so it's not even free. All this tells me is that Amazon doesn't value your time

>the prizes are yet more corporate trash that don't need to exist What I can't wrap my head around is that the top of the FAQ says that 1 Point has an estimated Dollar Equivalent of $769, and for 100 Points you get a t-shirt. As a "prize" in exchange for saving $76,900 I'd be expecting a car at the low-end...

It might be that work worth the equivalent of $769 is required to get a point?

Re: AWS BugBust

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Post by Robadob »

garblegarble wrote: post #16
theden wrote: post #6

I'm struggling to find a compelling reason why someone would participate in this? Looking at https://aws.amazon.com/bugbust/ the prizes are yet more corporate trash that don't need to exist ("AWS BugBust Varsity Jacket" okay ), and they have a pricing page so it's not even free. All this tells me is that Amazon doesn't value your time

>the prizes are yet more corporate trash that don't need to exist What I can't wrap my head around is that the top of the FAQ says that 1 Point has an estimated Dollar Equivalent of $769, and for 100 Points you get a t-shirt. As a "prize" in exchange for saving $76,900 I'd be expecting a car at the low-end...

The $769 is referring to the estimated money saved by fixing bugs, rather than the trade in value of the points.

> For information on how points are awarded, see the Official Rules. Actual savings may vary.

Section 5 of the official rules document states approximate retail value of the prizes as; reInvent:$4000, Resin Trophy:$60, Hooded Sweatshirt:$27, tshirt:$12

https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/bugbust/AWS_BugBu...

Re: AWS BugBust

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Post by pokoleo »

mdaniel wrote: post #13

When I read the announcement, I thought they were donating the use of CodeGuru to projects (which I presumed would be limited to open source ones) to (1) improve the code hygiene of the world (2) gather more data for their machine learning models (3) publicity for CodeGuru But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point Co…

I think you mean BugBust, not BugSnag.

Re: AWS BugBust

#29

Post by timvdalen »

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #23
mdaniel wrote: post #13

When I read the announcement, I thought they were donating the use of CodeGuru to projects (which I presumed would be limited to open source ones) to (1) improve the code hygiene of the world (2) gather more data for their machine learning models (3) publicity for CodeGuru But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point Co…

Quite frankly I've never seen people use AWS offerings for CI pipelines, I wonder if other products (Code* family) are any good - can anyone comment on them? I've only used CodeCommit once during a hackathon, and it seemed rather basic.

From my experience the products work fine, but they much more complex than they need to be (and than competing products are). They have a lot of weird constraints that make it hard to be really productive.

That said, when you've setup a build/pipeline, it mostly just works as it should.

Re: AWS BugBust

#30

Post by zeusk »

boldslogan wrote: post #4

kind of cool how they just "Created" a market place out of nowhere with their huge aws offerings. I can see this as a future repository challenging stack overflow, and with automation, challenging other CI pipelines, and then as someone else mentioned these magic carrots could be used as hackerrank/linkedin/hiring.

> magic carrots could be used as hackerrank/linkedin/hiring

Please god no. We have enough terrible hiring practices as it is, we don't need to make every other tech company a sweatshop like Amazon is.

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