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   by igorzij 4y ago

   Hey HN, I'm one of the founders of AWS Bootstrap. We have been obsessed with solving AWS complexity for quite a while. We feel that there is something fundamentally wrong with the current state of things in developer platforms. On the
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   Show HN: AWS Bootstrap – Full stack on AWS in one click(awsbootstrap.io)

   15 points by igorzij 4y ago|2 comments
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   AWS Guide for Startup Founders(guides.digger.dev)

   3 points by igorzij 5y ago|0 comments
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   by igorzij 5y ago

   Hi HN, Igor here, one of Digger.dev founders. We are an early-stage startup ourselves and keen to help other founders with AWS complexity. We are building a tool that automatically configures your AWS account for your code. Running these of
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   Free AWS Office Hours for startup founders(calendly.com)

   3 points by igorzij 5y ago|1 comments
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   by igorzij 5y ago

   And here's our PH launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cookies-by-digger
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   by igorzij 5y ago

   Hello HN, 80% of infra projects use the same terraform to deploy. Cookies is an open source generator for terraform. It supports containers, webapps and functions. You can check it out on https://cookies.digger.dev
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   Show HN: Cookies – create-react-app for Terraform(cookies.digger.dev)

   5 points by igorzij 5y ago|2 comments
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   Python Is a Bad Programming Language(medium.com)

   26 points by igorzij 5y ago|30 comments
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    Show HN: InfraGenie – open-source tool to decouple your Terraform(github.com)

    3 points by igorzij 5y ago|1 comments
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Even with enough skill this takes time. And you'd want logs, backups, monitoring. And you'd want infra-as-code, otherwise you end up with a snowflake. Even if this takes an hour of your time saving that hour pays for like a year o
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    So true
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    We're weighing pros and cons of opening up direct access to underlying instances for fine tuning. The pros are obviously more control, the cons - loss of standardisation and harder to support as a consequence
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Thanks!!
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    How would you then call running a db on an EC2 instance or in a container as opposed to using a managed service like RDS?
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    The use case we had in mind initially was that teams often set up their production using Heroku db or RDS (naturally, because it's easy and reliable), and then when they need more environments they naturally do the same. But reliabilit
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    yeah I agree, it's a bit confusing. I meant "host in your cloud account" as opposed to "use a managed service". The vast majority of SaaS seems to be built cloud-first, it's quite easy to forget that other ways
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    "beyond trivial" - perhaps from your perspective :) These days the vast majority of people who with the job title "developer" or "software engineer" only know one or two things. Given that the number of softwar
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Sharp eye :) Yes we are. Our dirty secret is that on the backend all of those are using the same engine with minimal modifications that is generating Terraform automatically and running it for you. We are just iterating on use cases.
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Thanks!! Just head to https://app.hippobase.io :)
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    Show HN: Hippobase – easily self-host open source databases(hippobase.io)

    47 points by igorzij 5y ago|35 comments
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Just launched on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hippobase
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    Writing a Good Code Sample(medium.com)

    2 points by igorzij 5y ago|0 comments
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Super cool! Where does it run the jobs - in my AWS account or on your servers?
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Thanks! At the moment it's t3.micro We haven't yet put network limits in place tbh, just hoping people won't abuse it. We will soon though.
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Hello HN! I'm the founder of Serverful ( https://serverful.io ). Serverful provides experience similar to serverless.com - but for containers Lambdas are great (and they support container images too), but for some types of wo
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    Show HN: Serverful – deploy stateful containers like serverless functions(serverful.io)

    4 points by igorzij 5y ago|4 comments
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    by igorzij 5y ago

    Thanks! This is helpful
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    Pulumi vs. Terraform(linode.com)

    1 points by igorzij 5y ago|0 comments
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    Amber – Encrypted Secret Manager(fpcomplete.com)

    1 points by igorzij 5y ago|0 comments