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I can't believe you have a PhD in math, can do leetcode easily, but AWS is too much for you. I will personally show you around AWS if you're up for it. Althoug

I can't believe you have a PhD in math, can do leetcode easily, but AWS is too much for you. I will personally show you around AWS if you're up for it. Although, I only know EC2, but arguably that's the only thing that matters :D

mathgladiator 4y ago
I worked at AWS and have architected large scale systems, and AWS is too much for me. The problem is that many of their solutions are super focused and they have ecosystem lock-in (i.e. lambda) which allow it all to come together (at a price).
- notgoodrobot 4y ago
  What is a better route for someone wanting to run a personal project but also learn the tooling that would be needed if the project "took off" in the sense of using a lot of bandwidth or having a lot of users/data? If that question is too broad... Is lightsail a good starting place within AWS? Or is there another service that would allow for less lock in but similar features?
  - mathgladiator 4y ago
    Scale really does require some degree of dimensional analysis. You can go very far with just Amazon S3 and an EC2 host. The place to begin is really with the fundamentals of a single host, and then looking for where bottlenecks will happen per project. That's when you can go through the catalog and find something which may be an ok upgrade to then buy into the lock-in.
tartoran 4y ago
Why would they need to learn AWS? Their other skills, knowledge and experience is too valuable to do AWS plumbing work. Work can be delegated in areas that one is not skilled in if they bring other valuable skills to the table. Unless the desired goal is to be an AWS engineer but that’s a different story.
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
  I don't know why they would need to learn AWS, ask them. They mentioned it, not me. I just offered to help.
daniel-s 4y ago
I'm more curious and interested to find out about this guy on the internet who wants to personally offer and guide a random stranger around AWS. Tell me more about yourself, good sir.
scotty79 4y ago
I don't think it's too much for him. He just finds it distasteful. I have such feeling for some technologies, like Oracle. It's not that they are super hard. I just don't want to touch it with 10ft pole.

mathgladiator 4y ago

I worked at AWS and have architected large scale systems, and AWS is too much for me. The problem is that many of their solutions are super focused and they have ecosystem lock-in (i.e. lambda) which allow it all to come together (at a price).

notgoodrobot 4y ago
What is a better route for someone wanting to run a personal project but also learn the tooling that would be needed if the project "took off" in the sense of using a lot of bandwidth or having a lot of users/data? If that question is too broad... Is lightsail a good starting place within AWS? Or is there another service that would allow for less lock in but similar features?
- mathgladiator 4y ago
  Scale really does require some degree of dimensional analysis. You can go very far with just Amazon S3 and an EC2 host. The place to begin is really with the fundamentals of a single host, and then looking for where bottlenecks will happen per project. That's when you can go through the catalog and find something which may be an ok upgrade to then buy into the lock-in.

tartoran 4y ago

Why would they need to learn AWS? Their other skills, knowledge and experience is too valuable to do AWS plumbing work. Work can be delegated in areas that one is not skilled in if they bring other valuable skills to the table. Unless the desired goal is to be an AWS engineer but that’s a different story.

sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
I don't know why they would need to learn AWS, ask them. They mentioned it, not me. I just offered to help.

daniel-s 4y ago

I'm more curious and interested to find out about this guy on the internet who wants to personally offer and guide a random stranger around AWS. Tell me more about yourself, good sir.

scotty79 4y ago

I don't think it's too much for him. He just finds it distasteful. I have such feeling for some technologies, like Oracle. It's not that they are super hard. I just don't want to touch it with 10ft pole.