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Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by hyperhopper »

berkes wrote: post #98
the_duke wrote: post #72

> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product... I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the cur…

To me the whole post read like "we are aquihired, but we cannot admit we are are aquihired". The closing of registration driving it home. If AWS bought it for the product, what reason would there ever be to stop the current business model entirely rather than leaving it on its current trajectory for a few months, untill said "needs" are addressed?

Of all PR, I think I may hate acquisition PR the most. It is almost entirely just lies. And the same ones every time.

Just tell us if you just wanted the employees, just wanted some rights, wanted to integrate their product for your use, or just wanted to kill something off. I'm sick of reading the same new release for every acquisition knowing it's bullshit.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by e-clinton »

jarek83 wrote: post #133

Interesting - I tried Fig for few days few months ago, it gave me more headaches than relief so uninstalled it. Surprised that it made into a viable product and shocked it actually got acquired.

Same experience. Tried a few times in different machines and it either froze the machine, ate up crazy memory, or other random behavior. I’m shocked this made it anywhere.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by dangus »

masto wrote: post #55

These features are nice, but I've never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them. I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it's not that I'm not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I've moved away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these pl…

I think the part of this that feels wrong is that it steps into the realm of so many other perfectly good tools, and it seems like it’s there to enshrine crappy local development and deployment practices.

If you need reporting on the scripts your developers are running on their local machines, that probably means they have too much access to live environments. Guardrails and reporting should be in your CI/CD process and your source control.

Shells like fish or shell plug-ins already handle autocomplete nicely, so that feature isn’t that useful.

If you need env/dotfile management you probably need to spend time making a proper development environment rather than shimmying in a tool to make doing the wrong thing easier.

SSH key management is so trivially accomplished by numerous methods like configuration management or built-in solutions offered by cloud providers. Plus, most development teams almost certainly give out too much SSH access as it stands.

If you need to SSH regularly that means your application isn’t shipping logs and your local development tooling isn’t good enough.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by TimJRobinson »

berkes wrote: post #98
the_duke wrote: post #72

> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product... I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the cur…

To me the whole post read like "we are aquihired, but we cannot admit we are are aquihired". The closing of registration driving it home. If AWS bought it for the product, what reason would there ever be to stop the current business model entirely rather than leaving it on its current trajectory for a few months, untill said "needs" are addressed?

I was at Cloud9 which was acquired by Amazon. We took most of the existing frontend and tech and rebuilt the backend on AWS, then relaunched it as AWS Cloud9. In the meantime we sunset the existing service.

I'd assume the same thing is going to happen here.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by gcampos »

jackblemming wrote: post #43

Seems like I dodged a bullet. When I interviewed there the founder asked very generic questions that may as well have come straight out of an Amazon leadership principles pamphlet. I bet Amazon will be a good fit for them. I feel bad for the employees who likely wanted to work for a startup, not Amazon. I’d be surprised if they got much from the acquihire either.

I had some exploratory conversations with them last year.

The product was nice, but their business plan made zero sense to me, so I decided to not continue the process.

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by yieldcrv »

masto wrote: post #55

These features are nice, but I've never liked the idea of having to use a whole new terminal application to get them. I may be becoming a dinosaur, but it's not that I'm not willing to try new things. On the contrary, after many years of being rigid about having one true development environment, I've moved away from Emacs to VS Code, and work from more heterogeneous environments instead of being 100% Mac. So these pl…

Yeah I just stopped paying for Jetbrains to move 100% to VS Code just a few months ago

I was using both before but the upcoming annual payment reminded me that its over

Re: Amazon acquires Fig

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Post by giancarlostoro »

the_duke wrote: post #72

> New users will not be able to sign up for Fig's products right now while we focus on optimizing them for existing customers and addressing some needs identified to integrate Fig with AWS. This sounds a lot like the product is dead, and may emerge again at some point as an AWS hosted, Amazon branded product... I'd never use a subscription + telemetry laden product like this in my core workflow, but sucks for the cur…

Isn't Fig open source? Now'd be the time for people to fork it while there's still the opportunity to do so if they find genuine value in the project.

My favorite 'acquihire' story is when Oracle bought out MySQL and the creator forked it and made MariaDB.

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