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Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by ksajadi »

Complete coincidence but today I was looking for an AWS mock for E2E tests. Not the whole AWS footprint but just a few services and looked at LocalStack for the first time.

It took Claude to put together a service (with web interface and everything) for those 2 services 15 mins.

I’m not claiming my experience is translated universally but perhaps if your core competency is something like LocalStack you need to think about alternative business ideas.

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by iaaan »

I evangelized localstack at my company a while back, but as we integrated it deeper into our CI test runs we started running into more and more things they don't support, and it feels impossible to get any attention from their support/devs despite being paying customers.

Their Cloud Pod and ephemeral instance features in particular feel pretty half-baked and not very useful at the moment.

Fun tangent: it's pretty easy to write a crack for the pro version; we actually used that for about a month as a pilot to confirm that it would do what we needed it to.

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by autism-kills »

ksajadi wrote: post #3

Complete coincidence but today I was looking for an AWS mock for E2E tests. Not the whole AWS footprint but just a few services and looked at LocalStack for the first time. It took Claude to put together a service (with web interface and everything) for those 2 services 15 mins. I’m not claiming my experience is translated universally but perhaps if your core competency is something like LocalStack you need to think…

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Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by supriyo-biswas »

ksajadi wrote: post #3

Complete coincidence but today I was looking for an AWS mock for E2E tests. Not the whole AWS footprint but just a few services and looked at LocalStack for the first time. It took Claude to put together a service (with web interface and everything) for those 2 services 15 mins. I’m not claiming my experience is translated universally but perhaps if your core competency is something like LocalStack you need to think…

Well LLMs are trained on code like those from Localstack, and a lot of them can be emulated to first order as CRUD operations, so its rather unsurprising. It does mean that things do become difficult for pure tech SaaS businesses like this one, and as also seen with Tailwind.

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by pfix »

matt_callmann wrote: post #4

What are the alternatives? I primarily used it for S3 and SQS emulation.

I've fiddled around with https://docs.getmoto.org/en/latest/docs/server_mode.html

It didn't support the one thing I wanted but it was so easy to find the right place in the code, I was happy. Never got to continue it though or turn it into a PR

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