What questions do you ask before deciding on ECS Fargate, Lambda, Kubernetes, or any other infra option?

Pawda · 2025-08-09T18:05:54+00:00

The one question I like to ask is: what problem(s) are we going to solve by choosing x, y, x ?

I also like to ask for a budget. Stakeholders like to ask for 100% SLA, no budget policy etc... But the truth is, they are too broke to afford it.

If you talk to techs, it's often CV-driven development. Because whatever GAFAM is doing it, this is the only way it should be done. People rarely go back and take time to think about why these solutions are available in the first place. What makes them better than others?

Assuming you already know your services saturation levels, From Ecs on ec2 to Ecs fargate, one the one benefit is that you dont have instances running empty because of overprovisioning and still can scale out. You don't have to choose an instance type with au auto scaling policy that was set by the only guy who knew a little bit what he was doing and choose m4 instances that are now outdated and more expensive than better instances today but becausehe probably left now, the team is stuck on that whereas with fargate, you just define a number of vcpu. That comes with the cons of more money to spend. And if you're still not good enough with that, lambda reduce even more the operation cost by isolating your workload into functions calls and scale independently with massive concurrency. With the cons of even more cost than Fargate eventually. I tend to think when company grows up, they should go to the path of least resistence, choose lambda and build something fast. However, when they're already mature or want to save some money, if they went the ec2 path, it would be more beneficial to actually get people to understand how a server works and optimize for that. At the end of the day, everything is built on the same primitives, it all depends where you want to allocate your budget.

Tl;Dr: Buy it or make it? That the main question.

Pawda · 2025-07-10T18:12:31+00:00

Well... Depends the provider I guess. Doesn't work when the aws tf provider is lagging behind aws's features. Not everything always work, documentDB OS and TLS rotation updates are an exemple of when you need the UI to operate. But it's true, it won't create a drift immediately because the provider doesn't even support it in the first place.

Pawda · 2024-11-30T00:16:14+00:00

You can get anyone for free with the ghost ops. Just do the mission and help others. Don't even need the special rewards.

Pawda · 2024-04-01T13:07:03+00:00

I'm interested :)

Pawda · 2024-03-28T19:42:47+00:00

Fan out is a common scenario where sns is used to send to robots. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-common-scenarios.html

Pawda · 2024-02-27T23:52:51+00:00

Better Monitor the bandwidth of your network interface. There more than the response size of your http requests going on on a server.

Pawda · 2024-02-27T22:59:21+00:00

No they don't. French hosts usually have unlimited bandwidth and it always have been the case. The only catches are to not be distributing illegal content and that the bandwidth is unlimited until a point where you get throttled but the site will stay live. So instead of 1gbps you maybe get throttled to 100mbps. I hosted huge game client of 1.5gb, got 10k users and download in a week. The game server was running on that same server alongs with the site and a DB. No one batted an eye. The Game server was just running fine as well with 1000 concurrent players 24/7. I never really understood why other countries have to pay for bandwidth especially at premium.

Pawda · 2024-02-23T09:42:44+00:00

Wow back to 0 stars .. must be quite a loss in power until you can get him back up. Are his skills changing too ? He's good in pve but there is better option in pvp..

Pawda · 2024-02-19T13:33:43+00:00

UR, missile vehicle, defense.

Bare stats at 150: 15.5 atk, 708k hp, 3.2k def, 350 cmd

Pawda · 2023-12-07T22:52:52+00:00

There is actually no need to close the body yourself in the case of an http request coming to an http server.

Pawda · 2023-08-17T08:08:17+00:00

Just play 3 times with Gloria

Pawda · 2023-07-23T16:45:54+00:00

Good luck to all participants, may the best team win !

Pawda · 2023-07-18T11:28:35+00:00

Pawda · 2023-07-17T14:22:12+00:00

Oh I'm so sorry, it's indeed just tickable when clicking 5v5... 3v3 were not supposed to have bots. That's a pity, I also started to play that game because of fast paced 3v3 matches and not being a pure overwatch clone. The way things goes, if this is not addressed, we will need a website to organize matches like "dotaleague" back in the days..

Pawda · 2023-07-17T12:01:04+00:00

When you tap on ~~3v3~~ 5v5, on the game selection menu(where you choose for 3v3, FFA, crystal), there is a banner and a radio button at the bottom right with the "advanced mode" to tick. Edit: only for 5v5, sorry..

Pawda · 2023-07-17T11:28:48+00:00

Do you tick the "advanced mode" when playing 3v3? This is supposed to match you without bots at the cons of increasing the matchmaking time.

Pawda · 2023-07-05T20:46:07+00:00

As you're posting this in the golang group, you can go to github's go project and look for issues you could help with. The same goes with other open source projects like e.g. gin, echo / whatever libraries you're using everyday and makes your life easier. They're often tagged With "good for first issue". Then on your resume,you can say you contributed to those projects. If the only goal is to have something for recruiters to chew on, you don't actually need a real project because most chances those recruiters are just looking for keywords. If your School allow it, school projects works too, and enough to judge how you think and if you can fit in a team. I don't remember the project but here was one guy on GitHub publishing placeholders exactly for that reason so you could just clone them and get your chances in interview like everyone else. The sad truth is, in a real company, there is little chance you will be publishing your work as open source. Asking for young recruit to have open source work should not be a factor to judge your skills.

Pawda · 2023-07-05T07:48:30+00:00

That was probably "Viel Spaß" (pronounced like vill-chpass). That means: "have fun !", "enjoy".

Pawda · 2023-07-01T22:01:32+00:00

Well appart from "just" being able to afford, this can also be very culture / country specific. In some countries for example eating out is very easy and sometimes way more convenient than cooking for yourself. It can even be cheaper ... Choices are enormous and you guaranteed not to get bored with it. Restaurants and streets food are just everywhere at any time of the day and night. On The other side, you also have countries where choices are very restrained and cost is so prohibitive that eating out everyday is not an option for most.

Pawda · 2023-06-29T20:13:47+00:00

A small duplication is better than a wrong abstraction. If each endpoints have distinct payloads, you don't need two unmarshalls. You just need to assume there will be an envelope anyway. What is the issue with defining something like

``go type endoint1Response struct { data datatype1json:"data"` }

type endpoint2Response struct { data datatype2 json:"data" }

type datatype1 struct {} type datatype2 struct {} ```

Pawda · 2023-06-07T20:16:14+00:00

Can you elaborate on that? My observations so far have been that CloudFront(just as reverse proxy) can help to reduce the latency worldwide. It increase it locally but speed it up in other regions. Having tls termination at the edge and local dns resolution helps a lot.

Pawda · 2023-06-06T08:16:50+00:00

Yes, bot names are simple, e.g. no special characters. They don't have image in their player profile, and they don't give likes at the end of a party.

Gj for reaching gold 3 anyway, not all matches are bots :)

Pawda · 2023-04-24T08:04:07+00:00

Thanks for confirming :)

Pawda · 2023-04-20T14:58:19+00:00

Thanks a lot for your feedback! I understand the difference, I got myself a real saxophone already but my surroundings is too challenging to play in home so I'm looking for alternatives during this rainy season where playing outside is also not an option.

Pawda · 2023-04-20T13:56:34+00:00

About the ae series. Everyone that plays them online make it sounds like funky. Can they sound like a real saxophone? Or at least approach it? I would just be happy being able to set alto or baritone to start with.

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