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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I hope there is buy in from at least the Product Manager level as well. The issues are deeper than just a new coat of paint.
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
UI/UX is definitely not their strong suit and CloudWatch is one of the worst offenders. I really hope they aquire a company to deliver a completely revamped observability platform in the same vein as where Stackdriver is headed. They r
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I mean it would be cool if they did, but the secret sauce behind DynamoDb is really the scale, without it it probably wouldn't have the performance characteristics end users are looking for. Nor do I think AWS ever wants to be in the b
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
All the more reason for an AWS managed version of MongoDB and Knative...
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I am personally much happier to see AWS implement managed versions of OSS like Kubernetes and Kafka, than to only see them offer their proprietary versions (Kinesis & ECS). The fact that all of these services are based on OSS software i
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I really hope not, the fact that all of these services are based on OSS software is what will help keep Amazon in check as they grow, because at the end of the day if AWS starts to turn into Oracle and get abusive with their pricing/li
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I fully agree that AWS should do a better job of contributing back to OSS communities both in terms of code, money and man hours, however I don't think most ppl appreciate that a lot of AWS' secret sauce just doesn't make sen
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
They don't really need to do anything sneaky to figure out what to build next. They generally build things that their customers are banging down their doors asking them to build. The main difference with AWS vs Azure or Google is that
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Fargate tasks can now be initiated by CloudWatch Events as well[1]. Lambda will always be at the extreme end of "serverless", but over time I expect the lines to blur more especially since Fargate will now be based on Firecraker[2
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I think over time Lambda and Fargate[1] will get closer and closer to each other in terms of functionality and deployment speed. 1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
We are making these open source runtimes available soon: C++[1] Rust[2] We are also working with our partners to provide more open source runtimes: Erlang (Alert Logic) Elixir (Alert Logic) Cobol (Blu Age) N|Solid (NodeS
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
> Amazon Aurora Global Database is a feature that allows a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads in each region with typical
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Amazon Aurora Global Database(aws.amazon.com)
8 points by talawahdotnet 8y ago|1 comments
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Sure, there are going to be some people that are excited by the fact that something seems new or just because it is written in Rust, but jessfraz and bcantrill certainly don't fall into those categories. They have a lot of experience w
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Sure, but if you already have one then there is no incremental cost. It would be great if they announced that they were gonna remove EKS master costs altogether. Technically Firecracker should make it possible for them to run that infrastru
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Yea, I think the fact that it even has a medium instance type is the biggest win for apps that don't need a lot of RAM. c5 and m5 start at large with 4GB/8GB respectively. To me the most interesting thing will be comparing again
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Very interesting. Looking forward to benchmarking these for NodeJS API workloads. Does anybody with experience running node on ARM have any advice/warnings?
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
This is awesome! We now have the ability to fully customize the trade off between cost and interruption while still guaranteeing a base level of capacity/reliability. This should make it much easier to run properly containerized web ap
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Launching EC2 Auto Scaling Groups with mix of Spot and On-Demand Instances(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by talawahdotnet 8y ago|1 comments
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Kudos to the work that Google continues to put into optimizing v8. For me async/await is makes a huge difference in terms of the developer experience with Node,js and addressing the remaining performance and debugability issues is a hu
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Man I would really love it if AWS got on board with this (not holding my breath though). After container orchestration, monitoring and tracing is the next major area that I would love to see a standardized API/toolset supported by all
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
This is an awesome initiative. The fact that AWS isn't on board is disappointing, though not terribly surprising. I don't even think it makes sense to hold out hope for future inclusion given that AWS has a competing product and m
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I wonder if they use their previous generation infrastructure for things like Lightsail. So now that T3s are out they will use the T2 infrastructure for lightsail as customers migrate.
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Amazon Lightsail Announces 50% Price Drop and Two New Instance Sizes(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by talawahdotnet 8y ago|1 comments
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Yup. I was just saying it is a useful feature.
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
It has according to this blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aurora-serverless-ga/ "The service currently has autoscaling cooldown periods of 1.5 minutes for scaling up and 5 minutes for scaling
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
I feel like the choice of the name "serverless" is unnecessarily confusing/controversial, but I like the concept. The ability to scale down to zero could certainly be useful for automated testing use cases. As with anything o
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Yea, built-in is what I was really going for. It would be great if new users could easily do a one-liner fetch without having to: a) Research and compare the various npm modules available and then install one (which isn't even possible
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
Good to see that they are adding promisified versions of more core function like fs. It makes things even simpler for new users especially with async/await support. I really wish they would add a promise based version of the http&#x2
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by talawahdotnet 8y ago
One of the most interesting new features to me is full support of MySQL 8.0 as a JSON based document store using the new DevAPI[1]. There is a separate blog post highlighting it: https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-announc

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