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   by tkw8 13y ago

   Using Scala has been a breath of fresh air after 10+ years of (mostly) Java. Mountains of boilerplate (I'm looking at you getter/setter/constructor auto-generated code) become 2 or 3 lines, in some cases a 1 line class defini
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   by tkw8 13y ago

   Whenever someone says $CLOUD costs less than EC2 it's always a very limited cloud with a small number of customers with a tiny fraction of a fraction of the features of AWS. It's never an Azure or a Rackspace.
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   by tkw8 13y ago

   In related news Amazon Cloud Drive still costs less per GB than Google Drive. AWS is also years ahead of GCE in terms of features and customer support and has been dropping prices regularly for years. GCE doesn't bring anything new that Rac
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   by tkw8 13y ago

   GCE seems like another "me too" product. The PaaS thing didn't work out so well for Google or Microsoft. When they realised AWS was much more popular with IaaS they simply set about copying AWS. They are years behind AWS and by the time the