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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   Stacktape | Fully Remote, preferably EU | Full time https://stacktape.com Stacktape makes DevOps 97% easier, allowing developers to deploy and run applications on AWS entirely on their own. - Medior/Senior Developer adv
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   Hi. Please take my oppinion with a grain of salt, as I might be biased since I'm a founder at a competing service. In recent years, there was a significant amount of startups/bootstraped companies that tried to make application de
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   Have a look at https://stacktape.com . It removes the complexity behind AWS and allows you to deploy applications with zero DevOps. It also allows you to fully leverage your AWS free tier. You can deploy containers, lambda functi
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   I like the idea behind this project. While designing https://stacktape.com , we were discussing a similar approach. But we eventually decided to go with a lower-level, more standard one. If I remember correctly, most potential us
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   What you just described is the exact same reason I started working on https://stacktape.com 3 years ago. When doing the market research, I talked to ~150-200 companies (mostly SMBs). Everyone was trying to "do DevOps".
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   Thanks a lot for the answer! We have clarified what the "resources" are. Every application (stack) deployed by Stacktape consists of multiple underlying AWS services (resources). For example a database instance, IAM role, auto-sca
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   Would you mind elaborating on what does the "similar developer experience as with git push heroku master" mean for you? I'm a founder at https://stacktape.com , and we're trying to provide full power of AWS wi
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   If you'd like something that gives you way more control and flexibility, yet is similarly easy to use, try https://stacktape.com Also, the Stacktape pricing works way better for companies spending $10-20k/month on infr
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   by matus_congrady 4y ago

   I'm not from Czech republic, but I know the country pretty well (living in Slovakia). Absolutely nothing you're describing about the new Czech government is true. They are not populistic (like governments in Brazil or Hungary).
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    by matus_congrady 4y ago

    I would definitely suggest Prague, Czech Republic. The city is beautiful. Climate is great. Low taxation (especially if you're self-employed). Cost of living is way better than in Germany. Quality of food, healthcare and public service
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    by matus_congrady 4y ago

    > After another quick look, seems like they may just be targeting executives at existing successful companies May I ask how you came to this conclusion?
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    This is exactly what Stacktape does. For example, the "HTTP API Gateway" resources has 0 required properties you need to configure. We have sensible defaults for everything. We also try to automatically infer as many things as pos
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Stacktape is a whole "cloud development framework". It's not only about infrastructure management, but also about all the other DevOps-related tasks you come across when developing/running an application on AWS. - In my
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Hello, thanks for a very valuable opinion. I'm just now starting to realize the mistake I've made when coming up with the "Heroku-like experience" headline. I meant it's similarly easy, not that it's PaaS. Stac
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    > What about observability? Logging, monitoring, alerting? Security infrastructure, everything from setting up IAM with better security for both human and machine users, to vulnerability scanning, WAF, anti-DDoS, TLS certificates, DNS, e
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    We are working on this. In ~2 weeks, we'll release a version with an interactive CLI "tour" that can generate the "sane-defaults" configuration for your application. Or you can start by copying the configuration fro
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Hello. Sure, I understand your point. Stacktape is not exactly a "PaaS in your cloud". Similarly to serverless framework, it works on the developer's machine (or on a CI/CD server). You don't have to "install i
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    I'm not sure, if we, as a humanity, can do much here. You have 2 choices: - Use a "0-config" solution. You sacrifice control, efficiency and a lot more. - You write configuration. In my opinion, the best language for configur
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Thanks for the tip!
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Interesting idea. We will think about it and see what we can do. It's not the most requested feature, but I do agree that is solves a huge paint point. Also, maybe some of you big data use-cases could be handled by a custom batch job?
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    > Not sure what to make of this. Given the active security incident, is "Heroku-like" really a recommendation? The incident happened right after we posted this 3 days ago. Not a great timing, I have to agree :) > Myself, I&#
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Apparently, we were chosen for a second-chance pool. You can read more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 I didn't have a chance to read it myself tho.
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Stacktape is built on top of AWS Cloudformation. We also use CF infrastructure modules, CF custom resources and aws-sdk for certain features and integration. We're also trying to smooth out some of the rough edges of Cloudformation (fo
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Hello. Our main design goal was to make Stacktape as easy to use as possible without sacrificing flexibility and control. Stacktape is built on top of AWS CloudFormation (it also uses CF infrastructure modules, CF custom resources and aws s
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    I agree. A lot of people were asking about this. We will do our best to help. First thing we want to do is an interactive CLI "tour" that auto-detects the project type, asks a few basic questions, and generates the YAML for you. S
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    We were just thinking about something similar. We'll se what we can do. Also, we're just now now working on an interactive CLI guide that auto-detects the project type, asks you a few questions, and generates the YAML for you. Per
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Hello. We do support Aurora postgres databases natively: https://docs.stacktape.com/resources/relational-databases/#a... You can trigger lambda functions by a "cron" job ( https://docs.stacktap
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    > Automatically generate the first yaml/config file from looking at my codebase? Heroku-like CLI that generates/updates the YAML file? Heroku gives me "redis" without me needing to learn anything about AWS/YAML-c
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    Stacktape does support secrets https://docs.stacktape.com/resources/secrets/ You can easily inject them to a container environment variable (at deploy time). You can also fetch these secrets at runtime (using aws
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    by matus_congrady 5y ago

    I'll be very happy if you give Stacktape a try and let me know if there's something you're missing (or something that dotCloud did better).