I’ve used most of those services and know well that outside of DynamoDB, EC2/Lightsail, S3, DataLakes (s3+athena) and AWS Lambda.
Most of aws services have sub-par performance for insane prices, for components that can easily be replaced at scale with open source more mature components.
Programmers have just lost all of their sysadmin skills these days and will use everything to justify the need for these insane , low performance abstraction abomination that Netifly, AWS RDS, AWS RedisCache, AWS TimeseriesDB, etc are.
Whatsapp used to process billions of users and exited for a billion dollar+ valuation and exit, with just a few FreeBSD running VPSes running their code, and a 20 person employee team…
Most people will never touch stuff in scale of whatsapp, stack overflow, instagram.
and they did it all just fine. Programmers should be mandated to learn Linux and Sysadmin skills again instead of re-inventing entire bullshit services for what is essentially often systemd replacement or a crontab/fcron replacement.
Maybe all of these companies know something you don’t know?
For every WhatsApp that you cite used their own infrastructure, I can site companies like Netflix and Apple that decided to use the public cloud and AWS in particular
> Programmers have just lost all of their sysadmin skills these days and will use everything to justify the need for these insane , low performance abstraction abomination that Netifly, AWS RDS, AWS RedisCache, AWS TimeseriesDB, etc are.
Does it add business value as programmers to spend time babysitting infrastructure? Does it “make the beer taste better”? Does it help to move faster? I can set up an entire highly available data center with all of these services you mentioned with a few lines of yaml/HCL.
Most of aws services have sub-par performance for insane prices, for components that can easily be replaced at scale with open source more mature components.
Programmers have just lost all of their sysadmin skills these days and will use everything to justify the need for these insane , low performance abstraction abomination that Netifly, AWS RDS, AWS RedisCache, AWS TimeseriesDB, etc are.
Whatsapp used to process billions of users and exited for a billion dollar+ valuation and exit, with just a few FreeBSD running VPSes running their code, and a 20 person employee team…
Most people will never touch stuff in scale of whatsapp, stack overflow, instagram.
and they did it all just fine. Programmers should be mandated to learn Linux and Sysadmin skills again instead of re-inventing entire bullshit services for what is essentially often systemd replacement or a crontab/fcron replacement.