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yeah no. aws excels at giving you the building blocks and making sure those building blocks work. unless you’re working at a small scale that’s what you want.
by rantwasp 6y ago
yeah no.
aws excels at giving you the building blocks and making sure those building blocks work.
unless you’re working at a small scale that’s what you want.
for all the crap aws gets, the documentation is there, the tutorials are there, the services make sense.
gcp is probably going to be around for a while, but i would not bet the farm on it.
in the cloud, today, it’s either aws or azure
- dnautics 6y agoI agree with your general sentiment, but in terms of UX the article is spot on.
- rantwasp 6y agosure. the AWS console has been very hard to use since forever. Some may even go as far as saying that it improved. The UX is not the selling point of a cloud provider.
- dnautics 6y agodisagree. I get the sentiment that in the long run an end-user absolutely "shouldn't care", because the infrastructure should be code, if the initial end user onramp sucks (bad UX) then it might give you a negative impression of the system. This impacts other end users, because if adoption has a negative first derivative, you could be in trouble in the long run. but UX goes beyond just clicky bits on the web. It's also stuff like "does your service take JSON as input and output JSON or XML?". "are critical fields well-named?", "is documentation for your endpoints well-structured and easy to comprehend" which, if the UX is poor, makes your IAC much much harder to reason about when things go wrong.
- rantwasp 6y agoi don’t disagree with your points. ux is more than ui. and it’s definitely harder nowadays to learn about the cloud than it was 5 years ago.