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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
MaddieM4@raphus.social wrote:
@arichtman @djsundog I have... so many thoughts about this, that I probably need to take a day and write them all out in a character-unconstrained medium, so *I* can better understand what I believe here. But here's... *some* of that.
I truly believe AWS was a mistake. Er- I believe AWS was a swindle, and adopting it was a mistake, let's be precise. Here's the thing about monoliths pointed at a database: it's really rare that you need more than that, and if you think you need more, you should be able to justify that out loud while an old-fashioned powder musket is aimed point blank at your brain stem. Infrastructure is the worst place to have complexity, because it really impairs your ability to locally develop realistically, do CI realistically, etc. And all the abstractions multiply the shit you need to know. It's a fucky, delicate place, where mistakes make very expensive noises.
The cornucopia of flashy goodies in AWS is bait. Quite frankly, the cloud itself usually is.
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