If I wanted to follow a tutorial or book but could not afford AWS, could this tool be used as a substitute for AWS functionality?
Aws has lots of free. What would you need to pay for?
Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
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#22Is Eucalyptus still a thing?
Re: Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
#23Cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure should offer local emulators for development. This would encourage developers to utilize their services more. I currently work with several AWS serverless stacks that are challenging or even impossible to integration test locally. While Localstack provide a decent solution, it seems like a service that AWS should offer to enhance the developer experience. They’d also be in the…
They should... put work into sacrificing revenue?
It's not clear that it would be a net-negative on the revenue.
It could encourage more development and adoption and lead to being a net-positive for the revenue.
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They should... put work into sacrificing revenue?
It's not clear that it would be a net-negative on the revenue. It could encourage more development and adoption and lead to being a net-positive for the revenue.
It's a fair point but iff you neglect that the overwhelming revenue drivers for these services are large corps who are already locked-in.
Devx doesn't matter at all once you're there.
The myopathy among us "online people" is assuming number of voices here and elsewhere correlate to revenue.
It does not.
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#26If I wanted to follow a tutorial or book but could not afford AWS, could this tool be used as a substitute for AWS functionality?
Aws has lots of free. What would you need to pay for?
Its pretty easy to step over those limits.
Also localhost and presumably this are good for validating your logic before you throw in roles, network and everything else that can be an issue on AWS.
Confirm it runs in this, and 99% of the time the issue when you deploy is something in the AWS config, not your logic.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aws has lots of free. What would you need to pay for?
Its pretty easy to step over those limits. Also localhost and presumably this are good for validating your logic before you throw in roles, network and everything else that can be an issue on AWS. Confirm it runs in this, and 99% of the time the issue when you deploy is something in the AWS config, not your logic.
>> "It's pretty easy to step over those limits."
Exactly, especially when people are starting out, don't have a clear understanding of the inner workings of the system for whatever reason. Jobs are getting harder to find nowadays and if during learning, you make one mistake, you either pay or the learning stops.
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#30Cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure should offer local emulators for development. This would encourage developers to utilize their services more. I currently work with several AWS serverless stacks that are challenging or even impossible to integration test locally. While Localstack provide a decent solution, it seems like a service that AWS should offer to enhance the developer experience. They’d also be in the…
Microsoft used to with their Azure Service Dev Kit. the ASDK was a single-node "sandbox" meant to emulate the entire Azure cloud locally. They may have something similar now but paired back