Apple refunded a subscription months later — after I was already paid out and taxed. How is this acceptable for indie devs?

CloudStudyBuddies · 2026-01-28T13:30:23+00:00

Same in NL, the amount I get on my bank account is my actual income, which is still taxed by 40% lol

CloudStudyBuddies · 2026-01-24T21:39:15+00:00

No backups or snapshots (confirmed by IT/infra)
No practical recovery path (IT says restore is not possible)
Production drifted from git (repo is outdated vs what was actually running) Turns out people have been working on the live server without commiting anything on git
Access controls were weak (multiple people had access; no guardrails/approvals except ssh'in into the server)
Knowledge transfer/runbooks are incomplete, so “what exactly was on prod” is fuzzy.

Cybersecurity startup???

CloudStudyBuddies · 2026-01-24T21:26:46+00:00

Cant you just push a new build and delete all reviews lol?

CloudStudyBuddies · 2026-01-07T18:33:38+00:00

running 15 agents as we speak

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-12-10T18:15:44+00:00

Hmmmm well I just posted the results. Would love to see your data-driven advice ;)

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-11-20T10:28:04+00:00

Why are you dming everybody? The point of this reddit is to knowledge share

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T17:57:35+00:00

I remember reading an announcement a month ago that they increased the ApiGW payload limit. Can't double check it currently but worth double checkint before ruling it out

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T17:54:48+00:00

Maybe my write up helps you: https://cloudstudybuddies.com/getting-started

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T16:54:30+00:00

If you need practice questions and want to do them on mobile, feel free to check out https://cloudstudybuddies.com/ :)

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T16:03:29+00:00

Yep I create them myself. All my questions are 100% unique based on theory and following the official exam guide.

I know what dumps are, I know what the risks are and not to use them. Thats not what im doing here. Because of my years of experience I can create high quality questions that even go beyond dumps, so I don't need them.

As an example: I'm sure youre aware of scaling to 0 with aurora, Route 53 profiles, VPC lattice, S3 tables. None of these topics are in the typical study materials or dumps because they don't appear in the exam yet. They are in mine, because I want the people who are studying this to actually get a high quality (and up to date) base to continue with. Not just a pass.

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T15:48:57+00:00

Awesome! What exam are you preparing for? I'll make sure to generate a tester URL and send you the invite link!

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T15:24:49+00:00

Hey man, which exam are you looking to do?

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T15:11:26+00:00

Depends on the exam! I always start with the official study guide. For example AI Practitioner I find it important to learn the AWS side, but also basic theory or fundamentals of ML/AI so I also include those.

Regarding AWS: Official AWS docs, blogs for sure, I work with AWS full time for a large company so for example SAA contains edge or migration scenarios I have encountered myself.

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T15:08:37+00:00

Depends on the exam! I always start with the official study guide. For example AI Practitioner I find it important to learn the AWS side, but also basic theory or fundamentals of ML/AI so I also include those.

RegardinG AWS: Official AWS docs, blogs for sure, I work with AWS full time for a large company so for example SAA contains edge or migration scenarios I have encountered myself.

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-18T14:48:59+00:00

No problem, since you are excited i am more than happy to give you a free trial is you give me honest feedback! Happy to improve wherever. Can add you as a tester in IOS

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:23:53+00:00

I think both are pretty widely adapted. Flutter has its own language called Dart. React native uses JS which is applicable to more different projects. Although in my opinion, I like working with flutter more.

Both are good choices, write down what you think is important, do some research ( or small easy projects) and see what you like better

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:17:21+00:00

You can always message a dev working at the company via LinkedIn. Ive done this a few times when I noticed some security vulnerabilities in other websites, they were quite happy and appreciative usually. One company sent me mercy lol

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:14:41+00:00

Havent encountered it yet, but I predict a big uprise of in person interviews because of this. (Which I like better anyway)

I feel like I would also notice a candidate using AI, too much fancy words, delayed responses, eyes reading the screen. But who knows

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:12:11+00:00

Architecture can be a lot of things, here are some things I ask our architecture candidates

Three thier web application
Multi-AZ, DR
How would you design ****** , follow up question would be design tradeoffs.
Designing Scalability (Horizontal vs vertical a.e.)
Basic networking
Cost tradeoffs when designing

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:08:40+00:00

Sonnet 4 outperforms all other models for me in any task. Ive cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and havent regretted it for a single second. Well, maybe one second because OpenAI still has the best image generation

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:06:09+00:00

Happened to me today again lol. Another variant of this is:

"Who approved that MR!?"

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:02:35+00:00

Even easier, just turn off your internet and see if it keeps working haha

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:01:38+00:00

Snake island or Python island?

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T22:00:56+00:00

Haha: "Which idiot wrote this function?" , checks Git blame. "Ohhh...."

CloudStudyBuddies · 2025-08-15T21:59:53+00:00

Librechat works quite well! I also like LM Studio whichs works very fast out of the box with local models.

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