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by endriju
255 days ago
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I think the problem with these general-purpose PaaS on top of Cloud is exactly that they're general-purpose. You will run into limitations and issues as soon as you start doing things only 5-10% of their customers need, like for example running privileged docker containers in kubernetes or wanting to manage parts of your infra with terraform.
I'd much rather see tools helping me deploy one particular niche use case in Cloud really well.
BTW I'm trying to follow this mantra while building https://staticbot.dev |
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I think people vastly overestimate how hard it is to learn AWS. It may seem daunting at first but it only takes like a week -- one good YouTube series to cover the basics like IAM, and a lot of playing around with the GUI console, CloudFormation, and pestering support till it all clicks. Multiple backend devs in your team should be able to own your CloudFormation/Terraform scripts and your cloud infra. I basically did exactly this in my new grad SWE job.
Just fucking learn it. You don't need to hire someone for every little thing. Don't treat AWS like some complex arcane machine that only a 3x AWS-certified "Cloud DevOps Engineer" with 10 years of experience should touch. And for the love of God don't add more 3rd party layers like TFA. Most of the world is raw-dogging AWS, why is your company an exception?