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I'm curious, is there an intersection of people who make significant use of AWS who purport to support the open source movement? If so, how do you reconcile cen
by hueving 9y ago
I'm curious, is there an intersection of people who make significant use of AWS who purport to support the open source movement? If so, how do you reconcile centralizing so much of your business/personal data and technology influence behind such a proprietary platform?
- oconnore 9y agoI upload my code to AWS, and it gets run. You save your code to your Intel laptop, and it gets run. Neither of us have the complete source code that is used to run that code. You have to be ok with that, and drawing a line in the sand at the hypervisor level just seems super arbitrary.
- javajosh 9y agoi can buy an amd laptop and run my code. where you gonna run your aws architected code if aws changes their policies to something you don't like? hint: it's called vendor lock-in.
- xienze 9y agoSo you write to an abstraction layer rather than directly to vendor APIs.
- oconnore 9y agoOk, so then I spend 5 minutes changing some boilerplate and upload it to Azure/Google Cloud/a server I bought on craigslist? Even if that did happen, I probably would still have saved time overall, because I didn't have to maintain physical infrastructure between now and whenever that distasteful policy change takes place.
- javajosh 9y agonope. if your code takes 5 minutes to rewrite, then who cares? if it takes longer, then you have a big, expensive, risky problem.
- hueving 9y agoWhen you write against lambda and S3 it's not the same as code just being run on a laptop.