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   by shaiber 3y ago

   In this insightful article, Elad Ben-Israel, the mind behind the CDK, shares his love for the cloud, but also his frustrations with the complexity of building cloud applications. The challenges he identifies include: 1. Focus on non-functio
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   Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions(architectelevator.com)

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

   This insightful article by Gregor Hohpe covers: * Evolution of programming abstractions. * Challenges of cloud abstractions. * Importance of tools like stack traces for debugging, especially in distributed systems. Gregor emphasizes that ef
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   History and Future of Infrastructure as Code(endoflineblog.com)

   6 points by shaiber 3y ago|2 comments
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   by shaiber 3y ago

   This insightful article by Adam Ruka covers: - What's IaC. - First gen. tools: Declarative, Host Provisioning (Chef, Puppet, Ansible). - Second gen. tools: Declarative, Cloud (CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager). - Third
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   History and Future of Infrastructure as Code(endoflineblog.com)

   2 points by shaiber 3y ago|0 comments
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   by shaiber 3y ago

   Thanks for the explanation!
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   by shaiber 3y ago

   Also, 2 questions that come to mind: 1. Is it based on ChatGPT? How does it ensure there are no hallucinations or that what it produces is correct? 2. Is this open source
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   by shaiber 3y ago

   Very cool idea, and sleek execution!
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    Going live now. On the agenda this week: · Immutable by default · Customize infrastructure using compiler plugins · Create composable cloud abstractions · Import and use CDK libraries · Realtime visualization of your cloud application
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Disclaimer, I am on the Wing team] Very good read! There are many tools in the space, each suitable for diff needs. Wing, as an infra and code solution, targets developers of resource heavy apps who'd like to work at a higher level of
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] Makes a lot of sense. As someone here guessed, this post was not something that we planned and it caught us off guard
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] To get some more insight into why we're building Wing, you are welcome to read Elad's blog post: https://docs.winglang.io/blog
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    We're still working on it. You are welcome to join our GitHub and help influence what shape it will take. Additionally, you can create your own resource, or a target for a resource if you find the one that comes with the standard libra
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] Sorry about the 404s. They are displayed to anyone who has not been given access to the repo yet. You are welcome to request access, and I promise to let you in very quickly. The reason the repo is not yet completely
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] I promise you this is a real project with a very large code-base already. You are welcome to request access, and I promise to let you in very quickly so you can see. The reason it is not yet completely open is that w
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] We are looking into adding cost evaluation and cost optimization abilities in Wing in the future. Right now we are focusing on the basics of the language. You are welcome to join our GitHub repo and vote on the featu
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] We are looking into adding cost gauging and cost cutting abilities in Wing in the future. Right now we are focusing on the basics of the language. You are welcome to join our GitHub repo and vote on the features that
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] We feel that the cloud has matured to a point where the basic services have enough in common with each other to allow us to successfully abstract their _functional_ parts. We do not abstract away the non-functional o
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] Wing compiles to JS + Terraform, so all your downstream tools function as they did before
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    by shaiber 4y ago

    [Wing team member here] We also believe that creating good, non-leaky abstractions is hard, but we feel that the cloud has matured to a point where the basic services have enough in common with each other to allow us to successfully abstrac