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Post by sitkack »

seibelj wrote: post #130
dakna wrote: post #116

So let me get this straight: Amazon packages open source software (Linux, Postgres etc) in a way that is an abstracted service (RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer). They add so many abstracted building blocks that you need a special skill set to manage them (Aws Certified Solutions Architect) instead of knowing how to do this with bare metal or a container image running in your own data center. And now that things are c…

Amazon has made scalable, performant, high-availability systems constructable by a 10 person team that serves millions or even billions of people. Before AWS it took thousands of people and billions in capital investment to do so. Sure, google and Microsoft and IBM joined the party, but AWS was first and remains the best holistically. This is their moment of domination, and eventually something will knock them down,…

Not it didn't. This is hyperbole.

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Post by takeda »

Sebguer wrote: post #155
takeda wrote: post #152

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So why is it under AWS[1]? [1] https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

The same reason React is under Facebook's github org? https://github.com/facebook/react FYI, as I commented below, it's also available on Github under its own user and with a very permissive (GPLv2) license: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8

No, that's not the same. This is github, http://aws.amazon.com is explicitly AWS.

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Post by randomidiot666 »

seibelj wrote: post #130
dakna wrote: post #116

So let me get this straight: Amazon packages open source software (Linux, Postgres etc) in a way that is an abstracted service (RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer). They add so many abstracted building blocks that you need a special skill set to manage them (Aws Certified Solutions Architect) instead of knowing how to do this with bare metal or a container image running in your own data center. And now that things are c…

Amazon has made scalable, performant, high-availability systems constructable by a 10 person team that serves millions or even billions of people. Before AWS it took thousands of people and billions in capital investment to do so. Sure, google and Microsoft and IBM joined the party, but AWS was first and remains the best holistically. This is their moment of domination, and eventually something will knock them down,…

Moore's Law made it possible, not AWS.

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Post by weego »

redler wrote: post #162
ensignavenger wrote: post #112

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Amazon Corretto is their OpenJDK Java distro that is free and Open Source. I don't know if the project was already using Corretto or not, but it makes sense for them to recommend their own, supported, open source solution.

Your point is a fair one, and I admit unfamiliarity with Corretto, specifically. But they're telegraphing, right on the tin, that this new service will indeed recommend solutions of the form "we see a problem pattern in your code; try Amazon _____". The fact that Corretto is actually open source further muddies the waters.

We'll need to see what comes out in the wash. Maybe the more OSS they encounter the more suggestions it will be able to make. Or maybe not and it will indeed be a sales pitch masquerading as a feature.

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Post by dumbfoundded »

jakear wrote: post #144
dumbfoundded wrote: post #133

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Instagram comes to mind. 13 employees and $1B acquisition. Hard to imagine that without AWS.

WhatsApp? Similar story, no AWS.

Well, WhatsApp was started by industry experts in scaling. If you're making a point about functional programming, I'd tend to agree but from a business perspective I'd look to why Netflix still uses AWS: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Netflix-still-use-AWS

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Post by danhhieu910 »

dakna wrote: post #116

So let me get this straight: Amazon packages open source software (Linux, Postgres etc) in a way that is an abstracted service (RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer). They add so many abstracted building blocks that you need a special skill set to manage them (Aws Certified Solutions Architect) instead of knowing how to do this with bare metal or a container image running in your own data center. And now that things are c…

It's not that evil. The first time used AWS, I really enjoyed the power and easy to set up the whole system from scratch everything (network, servers....) If it's on-premise, it'd cost a ton of effort of a lot of ppl. AWS is not that's hard, the console + UI is user friendly and they have a great document site so you don't really need to get these AWS's certs (I had one about 3-4 years and honestly the information in these tests are not helpful, rarely 1 people need to remember a lot of details in 20+ services of amazon, whenever you want to use one just start reading document about it). A new service from AWS - that's great. At least that is a new option for end user.

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Post by dumbfoundded »

nine_k wrote: post #145
dumbfoundded wrote: post #133

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Instagram comes to mind. 13 employees and $1B acquisition. Hard to imagine that without AWS.

An $1B acquisition may have nothing to do with any colossal infrastructure. Was it indeed colossal?

I don't know what you'd consider colossal but the migration doesn't sound fun: https://www.wired.com/2014/06/facebook-instagram/

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Post by randomidiot666 »

drchewbacca wrote: post #102
eigenvalue wrote: post #86

They should compute the SHA512 hash of lines of code or code blocks from well-known open source projects and then just give you pre-computed "reviews" for those lines/blocks, and then only charge for "novel" code. Otherwise you would need to waste time segregating your original code from the various packages you use. And it seems unfair to charge customers for canned results that can be cached and served at very low…

I think you can set it to only scan when new pull requests are made. So you could commit your libraries etc without asking for review and then turn it on only for code you have written. I might be wrong though.

Yes obviously you would just choose not to submit those irrelevant PRs to this extremely overpriced linter (it's not a code reviewer)

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Post by tikkabhuna »

bentcorner wrote: post #157
derision wrote: post #10

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exactly. IMO if you're generating code, it should happen at build/compile time not at checkin

I'm not a fan of this. My team does this a lot and invariably it leads to having stuff be unfindable because the source you really want is in your build directory and not in code search. Which is annoying but manageable if I build the project, but partners who don't will have an even harder time of things. More recent efforts have us check in generated code alongside the "config" files, and automated processes ensure…

We generate source code into a "src/main/generated" directory. IntelliJ picks it up like any other source code with proper Gradle configuration and we ignore it with .gitignore.

Only downside we've found is it can be a pain with searching for references in Github and you have to remember to generate the code, but for the most part it is seamless.

I guess how you manage it depends on your IDE, if you can configure it to work nicely, and how much the generated source changes/needs to be read.

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