[solatic]

TL-DR: Object stores are not databases. Don't treat them like one.

[throwaway984393]

Try telling that to developers; they love using S3 as both a database and a filesystem. It's gotten to the point where we need a training for new devs to tell them what not to do in the cloud.

[mst]

Honestly a Frequently Delivered Answers training for new developers is probably one of the best things you can include in onboarding.

Every environment has its footguns, after all.

[hinkley]

Communicating through the filesystem is one of the Classic Blunders.

It doesn't come up as often anymore since we generally have so many options at our fingertips, but when push comes to shove you will still discover this idea rattling around in people's skulls.

[ijlx]

Classic Blunders:

1. Never get involved in a land war in Asia

2. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line

3. Never communicate through the filesystem

[solatic]

You can either train them with a calm tutorial or you can train them with angry billing alerts and shared-pain ex-post-facto muckraking.

I, for one, prefer the calm way.

[Quarrelsome]

do you know if such sources exist publicly? I would be most interested in perusing recommended material on the subject.

[prima-facie]

They're also _not_ classic hierarchical filesystems, but k-v stores with extras.