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> If I was ever at a high level in a company I'd never go farther than some AWS load balancing or whatever on cloud instances we still have root on. Your compe
by mark242 5y ago
> If I was ever at a high level in a company I'd never go farther than some AWS load balancing or whatever on cloud instances we still have root on.
Your competitors would salivate at this statement, fyi. Speed is a competitive advantage. AWS is not "let's rent a big ball of EC2 servers and call it a day", and anyone who treats it like that is going to get eaten alive. If you have not looked at -- for example -- Dynamo, you should. If you have not looked at SQS, you should. The ability to have predictable, scalable services for your engineers to use and deploy against is like dumping kerosene onto a fire, it unlocks abilities and velocity that more traditional software dev shops just can't compete against.
- Hackbraten 5y agoOur customer (300k+ employees) switched to AWS a couple of years ago and I simply hate it so much. The “predictable, scalable” service we’re using, MSK, is a pain to develop against. Log files are all over the place, thanks to microservices and because no one, myself included, has a clue on how to make them manageable again. AWS’s graphical user interface is a constantly changing mess. I hate clicking my way through a GUI just so I can download individual log files manually. I wonder how you folks manage to work with AWS and not hate it.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoThis is just a bad setup. Ship logs others places, clicking in the GUI outside of testing things out is a mistake, use Terraform or CDK or Cloudformation. I've managed very large fleets of servers and its dead simple if you have a good setup.