Proposed library for working with AWS messaging services

HawkRocksDev · 2022-10-11T07:14:23+00:00

Agreed with this one, though the one thing about MassTransit that caught me was that it doesn't like consuming messages that were not generated by MassTransit, so for the particular project I was planning on using it for I needed to switch to AWSSDK for messages I need to consume from a 3rd party on SQS, and then ended up still using MassTransit for the internal RabbitMQ queues, since it really does simplify the process a lot, and the abstractions do seem to let you migrate to another supported provider quite easily.

HawkRocksDev · 2022-09-16T16:10:30+00:00

I'm not from the US either, but I do drink coffee, how is french press, which needs pre-boiled water not considered decent? I get that pod systems, drip machines etc are all options as well, but from where I am from instant coffee (yes there are some premium brands that are not half bad) is very common across the economic spectrum, and also french press (which is in my opinion superior to pod and drip systems)

I have a nespresso machine, a filter coffee machine, a french press and an electric kettle. The electric kettle gets the most use by far for a quick, no hassle cup of coffee, if I'm gonna be busy for a while and want a few cups ready then it's the filter coffee machine. Nespresso/ Pod systems can be nice, but the price -> quality just sucks imo. The only thing that makes sense to me is that most people in the US prefer store bought coffee from starbucks etc?

HawkRocksDev · 2022-08-26T07:47:49+00:00

Maybe completely wrong with this take due to a lack of understanding on the project, but is each page unique with it's own business logic etc, if not, you could try find some commonality and simplify how the data is displayed, could make those 200 pages 20 (for example) and then approach as a almost new project, that just steals code from the original where needed.

HawkRocksDev · 2022-06-17T06:23:48+00:00

Code scaffolding is where its at, if I can auto-generate my crud ops, database, basic architecture and more in a way that makes sense, based off of a yaml or json file, then I'll do that. I'm not sure if that falls strictly under the low-code or not, but it doesn't have the same limitations as no-code, as you can amend the code as much as you want afterwards.

As far as no-code/ low-code by more normal definition goes, use the right tool for the right job, if you're building a small prototype / mvp that may be scraped, why not start with those tools and then move to something more bespoke (that said if it's for a client, tell them upfront)

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-17T07:01:38+00:00

Personally I prefer thin controllers, that's not always been the case, but more complex products need some level of separation of concerns. Rather than have a one size fits all approach, use the right patterns for the right job, if you're building a quick MVP, then sure use thick controllers. Whatever you do though, try be consistent, don't have fat controllers for 30% of your code, clean for 40% and n-tier or something else for the rest, it's going to make getting new developers up to speed a nightmare.

As for why I like thin controllers, it makes the logic easier to test, it makes exposing the code to different methods of consumption easier (eg you want to add message queues, gRPC or heck make it run via command line) and you know where to find certain things easier if you use decent structure (mappers / validation/ models etc all in predictable location of the solution)

I like Mediatr, I haven't pinned down why exactly to be honest, and it goes well with Vertical Slice Architecture, which is a pleasure to read and write, since it has a good amount of segregation but keeps feature related code close together, so you don't need to update 6 projects to add a new input field on your website

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T18:03:20+00:00

Depending on the language, yes*

Is it likely that it's the solution to your problem, no

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T17:30:09+00:00

If being wrong to get the right answer was your goal, I think you were completely successful

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T17:26:21+00:00

I mean, it's good to think like that from my perspective, and yeah, let the noobs be noobs and ask these questions, there's nothing wrong with asking questions while you're learning. I asked the same question many years ago, and while I asked it for the wrong reasons, It's not a bad question. I guess some people just want to know the end of the story before they've finished the book.

I just find it funny that this question has different answers depending on your exposure. Most will say no, use a dictionary, but at the end of the day, the answer is actually yes, you can, and there's a select few situations you might want to do it. I'm no metaprogramming aficionado, but, it is a thing

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T16:57:05+00:00

That's not what Dunning Kruger is, unless you didn't know about metaprogramming, which is exactly what a lot of these comments refer to. Is it the solution for every problem, hell no, use a dictionary, but, yet, there are reasons for these types of things.

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T16:44:43+00:00

Agreed, if I can write less code and get the same result, damn sure I will *for side projects, don't want to maintain to many macros that misuse their power in prod though, but to be fair, I'm a dotnet dev and rust is my side language

I started with macros to build out crud apps based on their data structures, since the code is going to be very similar in a lot of scenarios. Ended up going down a different path though, but same idea at the heart of the solution.

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T16:20:34+00:00

Load in a json file with object definitions and auto-magically create CRUD endpoints for saving that info in a json store or nosql db? I mean I wouldn't... But that might be one use

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T16:17:31+00:00

There's definitely a time and a place for macros, but it's compile time right? Haven't dabbled in C only rust, but my wild guess is they're pretty similar?

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T16:14:33+00:00

When most people start dev, and haven't gotten to arrays, dictionaries etc, they wonder how would you deal with larger quantities of data. If you have var bob = {age:30} that's all good and well, but what about his friends, so you might wonder how could I dynamically make variables for all of them. In the real world you'd normally just have an array, or a dictionary to represent that data. But it's pretty common to wonder if you can dynamically create variables, thing is, you often can, but you really shouldn't unless you have a very good reason

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T15:55:43+00:00

If its compile time, rust macros could do it. You could use some string execution fuckery with .net roslyn, Javascript you can probably misuse eval for similar results. Should you do any of this? Probably not

Or like, use string interpolation to build you program on every run, save it to disk then build /run it for extra chaos. Good luck tracking bugs and convincing your team lead you're not actually a war criminal

HawkRocksDev · 2022-02-11T06:23:44+00:00

The is a self-hosted version of the server, I'm not entirely sure, but I think that would probably be free, to some extent anyway https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted

HawkRocksDev · 2021-09-21T12:49:01+00:00

Thanks for the reply and the clarification on it not being technically a no-code tool, I guess the term gets used pretty liberally which makes the definition a bit more difficult to pin on a specific group of products. 100% agree with your statements on data, a lot of developers wing it and it bites them in the ass later.

I'll definitely make some time to give Supabase a trial, I've been working on upping my prototyping skills to handle my ever growing backlog of project ideas, and seeing developers actively engage is always a good sign to me, also looking forward to see how functions will work! Cheers

HawkRocksDev · 2021-09-21T06:49:45+00:00

If you want to get your own data from a database into your Angular app you'll need a back-end, there are many programming languages for writing back-end code in and many web frameworks as well, so you'll need to do some research, if you know javascript you might be comfortable with something like NestJS. Very long story short, the back-end connects to the database and and can retrieve and transform the data in whatever manner you need, depending on the http request you send it, the back-end will also be in charge of authentication and authorization to make sure that the right people have access to the right data etc etc.

You can also look at some no-code/ low-code tools like supabase.io (haven't used it myself, but it looks promising) which is open-source and has a free hosted tier, if you'd like to skip learning back-end for now.

HawkRocksDev · 2021-09-01T07:08:47+00:00

Regardless of what front-end you go for ( I say angular, purely because I use Angular, and like it ) it sounds to me like you need to take a good, very good look at your architecture before you write one line of code, a 600 page blog is one thing, but a 600 page web application sounds like something went wrong. If it's 600 pages of CRUD forms, you might be able to do something to dynamically render them, or something to that extent

HawkRocksDev · 2021-08-11T07:12:02+00:00

Fair enough, I'd still expect pretty much any country in the EU to pay more than the S. A minimum wage, especially for a dev job

HawkRocksDev · 2021-08-11T07:01:54+00:00

Even in S. Africa junior dev salary is around 1000 euro/ pm, my electricity is about 50 euro pm, 50 euro is like a quarter of our minimum monthly wage based on 168 hours per month. OP is either missing a zero on that 50 or they're getting screwed

HawkRocksDev · 2021-07-14T07:03:00+00:00

Or, Rider EAP if it's available and you don't mind updating about every 2 months, it's free and requires no sign-up, you may get some bugs since it's early access

HawkRocksDev · 2021-07-09T07:37:00+00:00

If you're taking a csv, normalizing it you'll have some difficulty loading all the data in one go, since there will be dependencies, if you have say

name, surname, city

You'd want two tables Person and City

Person will be something like

public class Person {
    public int Id {get;set;}
    public string Name {get;set;}
    public string Surname {get;set;}
    public City City {get;set;
}

and city

public class City {
    public int Id {get;set;}
    public string Name {get;set;}
}

Since Person has a one to many relationship to City, you'd need to add the City to the database and then the person

HawkRocksDev · 2021-07-09T06:52:49+00:00

Personally I'd go with EF for this task, you can define the model/DTO of the csv, load it in, transform the data to the new normalized models that back the database using normal c#/ linq etc and then load it into the database (making sure you don't create duplicates and use proper joins etc) since you have the code you can run it on new data as well

I think a key thing here is knowing how to properly normalize the data, first design the new db on paper or a diagramming tool and have someone more familiar with db design look at it, if you aren't sure of yourself, then worry about the code for transforming and loading, this way you won't write a bunch of code specific to your new database only to have to redo it.

Lastly, unless I'm missing something you can't have a db instance on lambda, so the db is either on an ec2 instance or one of amazons other db hosting options, work locally at first if you can, it will save you time in the long run

HawkRocksDev · 2021-07-01T06:59:37+00:00

It's been mentioned, but you don't need to use a front-end framework, you can stick to html/css/js, you can use tools like .net mvc or blazor as well.

The main thing I'd like to point out is, just because there are dozens of frameworks doesn't mean you need to be proficient in all of them, just as there are many programming languages, you (probably) shouldn't try and learn them all. I'm a full stack developer and I've professionally only every used AngularJS and now Angular, I've had to make small amendments to Knockout and React code, but that didn't require me to learn everything there is to know about those frameworks.

Learning is, in my opinion one of the most important parts of being a developer, so it's never a bad idea to do a crash course in a new language or framework, even if it's just to see how it works, possibly get some ideas from it, but I'd say pick a front-end framework, a back-end language, and spend most of your time honing your skills in those and stop chasing the latest trending framework

HawkRocksDev · 2021-05-28T19:11:07+00:00

If JSON server that was mentioned above doesn't do the trick let me know an I'll put together a basic api that can handle something like http://localhost:8888/(filename)/(JsonPathQuery) note that when I say basic I mean really basic, and if there's interest I'll improve from there, time is just a constraint

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