thrauat

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   by thrauat 2y ago

   Although I wouldn't recommend using LocalStack's SQS implementation for production workloads, calling it a dumb mock is a bit outdated. It emulates pretty much every SQS behvaior including long polling, delayed messages, visibilit
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   by thrauat 2y ago

   You can buy LocalStack on the AWS market place if you want to hide it in your infra bill ;-)
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   by thrauat 4y ago

   thanks for saying that! people are pretty skeptical about localstack when they hear about it for the first time, and don't understand how we could ever emulate something remotely resembling AWS. tbh sometimes i'm baffled myself, i
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   by thrauat 4y ago

   GCP emulators cover only a very small portion of their services though. AWS also has emulators for some services they provide free of charge. LocalStack adds more than just emulation though, it has a bunch of developer tools that enables lo
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   by thrauat 4y ago

   You can definitely emulate parts of this. For example LocalStack can spawn ECS tasks using Docker, or EC2 VMs using something like VirtualBox. Load balancers are also emulated, so you can test load balancing configurations with IP address o
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   by thrauat 5y ago

   i think cloud providers have little incentive to help you develop and test everything locally, since they benefit more from onboarding you quickly into using their infrastructure, which they can much better monetize on. it seems to me that
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   by thrauat 5y ago

   Is it the startup time or the overall performance during runtime?