What are the alternatives? I primarily used it for S3 and SQS emulation.
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Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run
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I too was excited about the idea originally but then started realizing that they will have an increasingly untenable service area to try and maintain and mimic and it was just never going to work out.
It does seem like LLMs might make that a real proposition; of course, after these commercial enterprises steal copyright, copyleft and open source code, and the tooling gets good enough to download their cars, a new legion of DMCA lawyers and lobbies will be unleashed. Prep yourself though for that napster bloom, it'll be here shortly.
Agree but still a lot of surface area
Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run
#123Perhaps we should stop running things on clouds to begin with. Localstack's main point was that AWS cannot be run locally. Nobody seems to have a problem with that here, which is the bigger problem.
Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run
#124They still have linked their OpenCollective account, where they have raised $10K and still have a balance of $5K. [0] It's not a lot in the great scheme of things, but, have they been using a platform that's seemingly built for communities and open source to bootstrap their business? Because this is not a 'open core' situation. They just closed the repo and ran away. If they had that idea all along, I feel like it ha…
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#125Complete 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…
How do you know that Claude's moc matches the AWS API behaviour perfectly?
Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run
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We should return to the HN guidelines, and read it as charitably as possible. I'm interpreting it as closer to pity, rather than genuine criticism =)
Sure! Slightly edited the tone, but I’m noticing that often people have idealistic attitudes about FOSS until they get burnt by bad faith actors or even just indifferent corps that have to keep the lights on. Quite unfortunate, definitely not their fault. Pity is correct.
It’s definitely pity. It’s a hard pill to swallow when you were led to believe a certain world view of an entity only to find out they were milking your data.
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Wait, so a company shared their work with the public for however long, then decided to leave what was shared up ... but stop sharing ... and you're upset?!? They did everything properly by the rules of OSS, decided it wasn't in their best interest to keep doing OSS, and left all their code available, as required by OSS. They were a textbook good participant. Meanwhile, 99% of companies never open source anything: why…
They are going about to learn the same lesson Elastic learned with OpenSearch...
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#129I never understood why AWS doesn't provide something like LocalStack out of the box. Any team building serious software on AWS needs to mock AWS services in their CI/CD pipelines. What exactly are they expecting developers to do? They would probably argue something like "spin up real infrastructure so you are as close to production as possible" because this way they could make even more money while also avoiding the…
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Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run
#130I never understood why AWS doesn't provide something like LocalStack out of the box. Any team building serious software on AWS needs to mock AWS services in their CI/CD pipelines. What exactly are they expecting developers to do? They would probably argue something like "spin up real infrastructure so you are as close to production as possible" because this way they could make even more money while also avoiding the…
For a subset of people the AWS version of localstack would be enough to run production loads. Which is bad for business =)