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As a non infra guy I'll say this. I'm curious about Linear. At my own company I vibecoded my own project management app against the JIRA API because I can't stand our version of JIRA. It's too many clicks, too many things to remember and it's unintuitive.
> Not using Function as a Service(FaaS) more FaaS is almost certainly a mistake. I get the appeal from an accountant's perspective, but from a debugging and development perspective it's really fucking awful compared to using a traditional VM. Getting at logs in something like azure functions is a great example of this. I pushed really hard for FaaS until I had to support it. It's the worst kind of trap. I still get s…
What's the issue with logging? I would have expected stdout/stderr to get automatically transferred to the providers managed logging solution (e.g. cloudwatch). Though I never really understood the appeal of FaaS over something like Google-Cloud-Run.
Surprised to see datadog as a regret - it is expensive but it's been enormously useful for us. Though we don't run kubernetes, so perhaps my baseline of expensive is wrong.
> Startups don’t have the luxury of a DBA but... you are spending so much on AWS and premium support... surely you can afford that
> Not using Function as a Service(FaaS) more FaaS is almost certainly a mistake. I get the appeal from an accountant's perspective, but from a debugging and development perspective it's really fucking awful compared to using a traditional VM. Getting at logs in something like azure functions is a great example of this. I pushed really hard for FaaS until I had to support it. It's the worst kind of trap. I still get s…
What's the issue with logging? I would have expected stdout/stderr to get automatically transferred to the providers managed logging solution (e.g. cloudwatch). Though I never really understood the appeal of FaaS over something like Google-Cloud-Run.
it SUCKS. There's no interactive debugging. Deploy for a minute or 5 depending on the changes, then trigger the lambda, wait another 5 minutes for all the logs to show up. Then proceed with printf/stack trace debugging.
For reasons that I forgot, locally running the lambda code on my dev box was not applicable. Locally deploying the cloud environment neither.
I wasn't around for the era but I imagine it's like working on an ancient mainframe with long compile times and a very slow printer.
> Picking Terraform over Cloudformation: Endorse I, too, prefer McDonald's cheeseburgers to ground glass mixed with rusty nails. It's not so much that I love Terraform (spelled OpenTofu) as that it's far and away the least bad tool I've used in the space.
Any opinion on Pulumi?
I loved reading code
As a non infra guy I'll say this. I'm curious about Linear. At my own company I vibecoded my own project management app against the JIRA API because I can't stand our version of JIRA. It's too many clicks, too many things to remember and it's unintuitive.
Infra guys doing DBA is a nightmare in my experience (usually clueless and it gets loved less than more sexy parts of infra). Devs too Hire a DBA ASAP. They need to reign in also the laziness of all other developers when designing and interacting with the DB. The horrors a dev can create in the DB can take years to undo