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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by 8note »

How do you actually come up with good icons for these things?

I can imagine a few for things like sns, sqs, and lambda, but what's the right icon for kinesis?

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Traubenfuchs wrote: post #55
hbn wrote: post #47

If you pass this, a team of medical professionals will be sent to your home to peacefully euthanize you, as it is the only ethical choice to end your suffering.

I sense a business opportunity: Euthanasia as a Service. EaaS. With an API.

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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

baz00 wrote: post #64
paulddraper wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, the pareto principle applies....80% of services are only relevant 20% of the time. If that.

Worth noting that also from experience that applies to the amount of effort they put into services. Most of the non-core ancillary services are buggy garbage. I'm wondering if we're going to cause an integer overflow on the support ticket system the way we're going.

Probably 20% of the services power the other 80% under the hood too.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by TheSoftwareGuy »

baz00 wrote: post #64
paulddraper wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, the pareto principle applies....80% of services are only relevant 20% of the time. If that.

Worth noting that also from experience that applies to the amount of effort they put into services. Most of the non-core ancillary services are buggy garbage. I'm wondering if we're going to cause an integer overflow on the support ticket system the way we're going.

It’s funny you say that. I work at AWS. The URls for tickets just rolled over to have a new digit this week

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by mdaniel »

8note wrote: post #122

How do you actually come up with good icons for these things? I can imagine a few for things like sns, sqs, and lambda, but what's the right icon for kinesis?

much like comment elsewhere in this thread about Adobe's products, I bet one would get pretty far just using the initialisms for the service and then no one has to spend their precious braincells trying to map someone's fever dream icons for Iot-Blockchain-Whatever down to some triangles

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Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by hiyer »

commandlinefan wrote: post #86
AdamH12113 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names. API Gateway Should have been called: API Proxy It's like: 3Scale SNS Should have been called: Amazon Messenger It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio Kinesis Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput It's like: Kafka (It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)

It makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't actually Kafka rebranded.

It's not. Kinesis was around before Kafka became the de-facto tool for data streaming. AWS has a separate managed Kafka service called MSK, which came much later.

Re: AWS Icon Quiz

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Post by myaccountonhn »

karaterobot wrote: post #57

As a designer, I just want to say that if your instinct is to rag on these symbols for being incomprehensible, go ahead and try your hand at one or two. It may be humbling. Illustrating abstract concepts that are similar to other, related abstract concepts is extremely difficult. Remember that it's got to be legible in a footprint of a couple dozen pixels on a side. When you're done, make sure it isn't close enough t…

But in the case of aws it’s so bad, why even have an icon at all?
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