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by kennu 10y ago
Can you honestly say you remember the exact pacman syntax of how to perform a system upgrade or how to install a package? :-) For me the UX was a problem, even if technically the package management is good.
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by kennu 10y ago
Seems a bit pointless to push a new standard when Swagger and JSON Schema already exist and are widely supported by all kinds of documentation browsers, API generators, validators and other tools. Competition is good of course, but I'd
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by kennu 10y ago
I use Phenomic to generate static React websites. Served from Amazon S3/CloudFront, with Serverless (Lambda/API Gateway) for REST APIs as needed. This appears to be the cheapest and most reliable and autoscalable way to build web
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by kennu 10y ago
The point raised in the article is in my opinion quite valid. Most services offered by Amazon are practically free for personal use and extremely convenient (no need to install, update and manage anything), so there is less and less incenti
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by kennu 10y ago
Personally, after playing around with all kinds of game engines and frameworks, I always go back to Unity. It has a lot of warts and issues, but for me it's the most productive way to focus on actually creating games.
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by kennu 10y ago
It's not strictly speaking an alternative to AWS Lambda, because you have to run your own IronFunctions server somewhere. So you will again have to manage servers instead of being serverless. It's nice to have this platform availa
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by kennu 10y ago
Isn't the real answer to this to start a company (or some other form of organization)? Then the accounts and other ownerships are no longer tied to a single individual but to a virtual entity that can be controlled by other individual
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by kennu 10y ago
I think I got downvoted by someone who doesn't like AWS. Anyway, the purpose was to say that you don't have to spin up virtual machines on AWS if you build your app with the serverless paradigm, and that fits small projects well b
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by kennu 10y ago
I prefer to use AWS services that don't require any "spinning up": CloudFront/ACS/S3 for static web files, API Gateway/Lambda for backend, IoT for websockets. It takes some effort to configure everything, but t
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by kennu 10y ago
ALB seems to be missing a critical part: hostname based routing. Currently all your container services have to be under the same FQDN. Also, the limit of 10 virtual hosts per ALB seems very artificial. Otherwise ALB could be used for virtua
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by kennu 10y ago
IMHO, a startup should be purposefully focused on delivering fast results to prove its business value as quickly as possible. This goal often clashes with engineering-minded people, who would rather spend time on creating a stable, debt-fre
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by kennu 10y ago
I would not be not easy to implement the full generic functionality of Lambda and API Gateway. But I think it would be fairly easy to just write some application-specific Express code to handle the API routing, and add some wrappers for Lam
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by kennu 10y ago
I would claim that the microservice architecture of AWS Lambda & API Gateway (which is generally associated with Serverless applications) is not what causes vendor lock-in. It's pretty straightforward to implement the same environm
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by kennu 10y ago
My experience has been that dealing with Haskell library dependencies is very inconvenient, which makes maintaining applications painful. You can make the dependencies work at one point in time, but upgrading them later is a painful process
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Beyond the 'chatbot' – The messaging quadrant(visionmobile.com)
1 points by kennu 10y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 10y ago
I think VR is going to change all that. Not right away but eventually.
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by kennu 11y ago
You can do that if you have unlimited time. Eventually there's just too much "own shit" to take care of, if you keep adding all kinds of services. This is quite familiar to me, having run a bunch of email/web/contai
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How Amazon’s IoT Platform Controls Things Without Servers(sc5.io)
1 points by kennu 11y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 11y ago
These arguments seem to be mostly related to Amazon API Gateway rather than Lambda. (Handling errors on invalid input, returning response codes other than 200.) Lambda was also first available for JavaScript before Python, so probably the J
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by kennu 11y ago
I like extension cords that include both 230V and USB sockets, so you don't have to use power adapters for every device. Makes me wonder if electrical infrastructure could some day be updated to match modern usage patterns. Here's
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by kennu 11y ago
It would be interesting. But I would also note that Docker doesn't do virtualization. It uses e.g. mount namespaces to mount an existing Linux volume inside the container ( http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7&
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by kennu 11y ago
Glacier is more comfortable to use through S3, where you upload and download files with the regular S3 console, and just set their storage class to Glacier with a lifecycle rule. I've used the instructions in here to do it: https:&#x2
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by kennu 11y ago
I warmly recommend the Serverless framework for building basic web applications on AWS. It handles CloudFormation details for you, but lets you customize them if needed. Not suitable for every possible app though.
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by kennu 11y ago
I agree that they could probably be deprecated and removed nowadays. There used to be a transition time when people ran old Mac OS applications on OS X.
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by kennu 11y ago
TLDR: Mac filesystems have resource forks. I guess the author has not used Macs too much, as they have been around since the 1980's.
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by kennu 11y ago
I think the author is implicitly describing the paradigm shift from software and hardware abstractions to service abstractions. We used to make computers by soldering electronics together, then by assembling cases and components, then buyin
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by kennu 11y ago
IMHO the problem with many competing social networks (Tsu, Ello, Diaspora, etc) is that they try to be exactly like Facebook. So in practice they become crappy subsets of Facebook. Then nobody has much interest in using them because Faceboo
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New Azure Container Service to Bring Together Mesos, Docker and Azure Cloud(zdnet.com)
5 points by kennu 11y ago|0 comments
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by kennu 11y ago
One thing I particularly like about CoAP is the /.well-known URI support ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7252#section-7 ). It lets you implement services with easily discoverable data endpoints. E.g. IoT sensor devi
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Amazon AWS Lambda data caching solutions compared(sc5.io)
3 points by kennu 11y ago|0 comments

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