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It says something about how my impression of Amazon has changed over the years, but when I first saw that headline, I thought this was going to be a competitor
by oneeyedpigeon 9y ago
It says something about how my impression of Amazon has changed over the years, but when I first saw that headline, I thought this was going to be a competitor for Google Charts.
- Gaelan 9y agoYep. Was about to say the same thing
- iDemonix 9y agoI was actually quite disappointed when I clicked the link and saw books instead of graphs. With that said I don't have too much bad to say about ChartJS.
- StavrosK 9y agoI do. I have a page on Google Charts that I want to replace, and all the graphing library APIs seem to be badly designed. I literally just want to make a line graph with snapping labels and zooming, which is something bog-standard that Google Charts does with a few lines of code. Why is it almost impossible to do with ChartJS? I'd expect an example like this to exist with a few lines of code, give it a list of [X, Y] points and that's it.
- dhimes 9y agoI was disappointed when I didn't see my wife's book :(
- jknoepfler 9y agoI was really hoping for some kind of replacement for the god-awful Cloudwatch dashboards, which AWS doesn't even use internally because they are borderline useless (source, worked in AWS and built many dashboards)
- benologist 9y agoI was really hoping it would be 7 new SDKs and 65 new billing metrics.
- Artemis2 9y agoEven the 2017 Aurora paper shows CloudWatch, Datadog and New Relic charts: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3056101 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3056101
- vinayan3 9y agoI got super excited they would have better charting for Cloudwatch. I used Datadog for awhile and the charting system was amazing there. Hopefully, one day they'll improve Cloudwatch.
- drewda 9y agoIt's not a stand-alone chart-drawing API, like Google Charts, but here's where AWS is getting into the "lines and bars" business: https://quicksight.aws/ https://quicksight.aws/
- ehsankia 9y agoUnrelated, but the forced scrolling on that site broke my two finger slide trackpad go back gesture. I hate it when website's do that.
- jdc0589 9y agosomehow I missed that AWS had its own TLD now.
- zacmps 9y agoGoogle has one too, they don't use it outside of domains.google and one other though.
- IE6 9y agoI had the same reaction and then I felt oddly nostalgic when I landed on an Amazon page that dealt with books.
- janwillemb 9y agoSame here; I thought the page was inaccessible and this had to be some fancy way of 404.
- TremendousJudge 9y agoCan anyone give me alternatives to Google Charts? I've tried plotly and I think it's unwieldy for consumer facing plots. Plus the documentation is worse
- manojlds 9y agoTotally - after seeing the list I was like, oh it's about THAT part of Amazon.
- NicoJuicy 9y agoAnekdote: Title changed from "Amazon Charts" to "Top 20 Most Sold and Most Read Books of the Week"