Monday, May 11, 2020

5 terrible AWS services you should avoid -- for now


David Lin takes us on a fun adventure of how terrible a few AWS services are (currently) and why you should avoid them at least until their next major releases. For the impatient, the services are:
  1. Cognito
  2. CloudFormation
  3. ElasticCache
  4. Kinesis
  5. Lambda
I disagree with David on this last one (Lambda).  If you embrace our serverless no-ops future, then you must refactor your object models and separate your concerns differently in your designs to keep the right number of end-points for your needs and your organization.  David's argument is that if you were to factor your services his (per-end-point) way, you would have explosively many web functions.  I challenge his assumption.

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