Every time that I've looked at them prior
I found two big things to correct:
The first rooted within architecture
The other its shitty DX
For the former it seems kinda squirrelly
For a database to think that it's somehow a queue
And the latter with console or CloudFormation
ERROR: ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS: FUCK YOU
Dynamo Streams seem like "too much magic"
It's not clear to me how it might fail
And setting them up in the console
It'd be faster to send the items by mail
So use DDB Streams if they help you
Don't let me besmirch their mystique
I might give them a try again someday
If the docs weren't written in Greek.
/fin
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So many years ago, when my humor was significantly more sophomoric, I had the “cloud to butt” browser extension installed.
It replaced the word “cloud” with “butt.” Suddenly @RedHat’s site was talking about public and private butts, which admittedly makes a lot more sense than whatever the hell it’s talking about now.
I was embedded at a client site for a while, and I replied to some email or another. The client manager responded with what might possibly be the most flustered email I’ve ever read, apologizing for his previous message.
So an anonymous Twitter person DM'd me this morning with a scenario. "I work at a large cloud company that makes inscrutable naming decisions, and I have an offer elsewhere for 35% more. Should I take it?"
Oh good heavens yes. A thread...
I hopped on a call with them and proceeded to firehose a bunch of career advice in their direction. I took a few notes and here's the gist of it.
No one is going to have your interests first and foremost except for you. You owe your employer a duty of care, and a duty of confidentiality, but you don't owe them loyalty.
Stage 0: You have an idea. You fit in the free tier.
Stage 1: You get a pile of Activate credits (anywhere from a pat on the head to $100K, though there are exceptions). This counterintuitively helps set you up for failure; if it's "free" to you, you don't practice good early hygiene.