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by decidertm 1648 days ago
Yes they might suck, but that's because of its success and the complexity of the problem - it'll get better over time.

However aws-sdk doesn't need to be 70mb, the console doesn't need to be slow and they don't need over 10 unique services to deploy containers.

We're working on a much improved dev ex for cloud providers and Kubernetes at https://northflank.com - with a fast real-time console, a well documented and useable API with auto generated CLI and API clients. 30 seconds of fun - can I get a production ready CI/CD setup for a repo(s) in 30 seconds? Can I get a HA Redis, Postgres, RabbitMQ provisioned and connected to my code in 30 seconds? These are the questions and solutions that developers will be asking for more and more.
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pid-1 1648 days ago
Your product looks really cool, but just a heads up as a potential customer:

On your cloud >> talk to sales

Every SaaS firm on earth wants me to talk with their sales, I'm tired of that. From 2022 and beyond, if you can't give me some Databricks style onboarding, you're not getting my money.

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decidertm 1648 days ago
Hi pid, thank you for the kind words. Agreed that's not our intention. You can signup self-serve at the moment and get access to the entire platform + free developer tier with our infrastructure. On your cloud is currently a manual on-boarding with our engineers, in the new year it will be also self-service.
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Hamuko 1648 days ago
I don't find the console slow, but I find it pretty stupid. There are some things that I can't do via the console, only via the API, and some stuff just doesn't make sense. Like why does AWS WAF have its own region selection (that always defaults to us-east-1) separate from the console region selection?
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tyingq 1648 days ago
>Like why does AWS WAF have its own region selection

Assuming you're talking about WAFv2, it seems that's because they chose to have a single set of api endpoints instead of regional-based endpoints. And that the CLI --region option is really only equipped to swap endpoints.

Doesn't explain why they chose that path though.

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Hamuko 1647 days ago
I think even WAF v1 had stupid region selections on the console.
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