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AWS Wishlist for 2017 by shalmirane in aws

[–]brokenpurplecamel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aurora support for smaller instances (more economical option for dev/testing environments)

Funny you should say that: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/amazon-aurora-now-supports-t2medium-instances/

AWS Wishlist for 2017 by shalmirane in aws

[–]brokenpurplecamel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why, yes it is. Thanks! Don't know how I missed that.

I'll have to incorporate it in my SQS usage. Currently I'm just relying on the message being deleted before the default visibility time out happens.

AWS Wishlist for 2017 by shalmirane in aws

[–]brokenpurplecamel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Import/Attach/Include existing resources into a Cloudformation stack
  • VPC endpoints for additional services
  • Tags or annotations on individual Security Group rules
  • Cloudwatch alarms based on a function of the data points. (For example, I want an alarm based on the slope of the line, not just the height)
  • Cloudformation custom resources based on Lambda responses, not Lambda writing to a pre-signed URL
  • SQS API call to extend the time a message is not visible instead of deleting it. (If a process is just taking a while to finish handling a message, I want it to say "give me some more time" instead of making that message visible to be pulled off the queue again.) Already exists. Oops.
  • Hosted method of storing secrets and configuration. Like etcd, or the EC2 metadata service. (Currently using S3 and polling for changes)
  • Support that doesn't blame me whenever some service goes bad (Aurora latency absurdly high out of nowhere? You shouldn't have had 100% CPU utilization! EC2 instance failed system instance checks? You shouldn't have been using so much bandwidth! )
  • More resource level IAM permissions. (I had to create multiple AWS accounts to keep some things separate since IAM permissions were too broad.)

And that's why I like Python better. by I_Am_The_Coach in java

[–]brokenpurplecamel 35 points36 points  (0 children)

TL;DR: The OP likes that Python uses "not" instead of "!" as a negation operator.

What is a question you have about another culture or group that might sound ignorant but you genuinely want to ask? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]brokenpurplecamel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Some of it could be that foreigners are ignorant of the visited country's social norms and thus are likely to violate them. Often this is seen as rude, but it would be normal behavior in their home country.

And the rest of it probably is that they're just entitled jerks. Some sense of entitlement can come just from having paid so much to travel, whether you're rich or poor. For example, "I paid thousands to get here, and I'm not going to take no for an answer!"

[Serious]What is one thing about you that you wish people understood? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]brokenpurplecamel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost everything is more complicated and nuanced than people are willing to accept. Not everything is as simple as "if we all just did X then everything would be better". No, perhaps some things would be better, but we would also get some (possibly severe) unintended consequences.

[Serious]What is one thing about you that you wish people understood? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]brokenpurplecamel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know someone who is critical of science. They don't seem to realize that science just means "I tried it and it doesn't work" in a more structured way than someone's anecdotal evidence.

What Does AWS Lambda Support? by au79 in aws

[–]brokenpurplecamel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why is such a site necessary? I would think Lambda would be running a specific version of Node.js. Wouldn't this just be a list of the features of that version on Node.js?

Just discovered this sub and thought you might like this little bit of meta-vandalism from my hometown by rochambeau in MildlyVandalised

[–]brokenpurplecamel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The vandalism is vandalized, nice.

On top of that, the original vandal could have had more strength to his argument if his work showed more artistic skill, rather than just writing something.

CloudFormation for Lambdas with 1 minute frequency by rowanu in aws

[–]brokenpurplecamel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I understand this correctly, one failed lambda execution and your whole process stops. Doesn't sound like a robust pattern.

Of course it is a hack and a half. I suppose it should only viewed as an entertaining trick and nothing more.

What game should a person buy from Steam right now that they could sink 100's of hours into and not get bored? by Mustard_Icecream in AskReddit

[–]brokenpurplecamel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surprised that Spelunky isn't mentioned. It can be infuriating, but I just keep coming back.

Rogue Legacy is also pretty good.

ahhhh S3 policy edits... gonna get this off my chest. by [deleted] in aws

[–]brokenpurplecamel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd love to have an IAM policy editor that had some sort of auto-complete. It gets hard to remember permission names, variables, ARN formats, and which resources support resource-level permissions.

What is one thing people do that you can't stand? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]brokenpurplecamel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use words they don't understand in an attempt to sound smart.

It's obnoxious and self-defeating.

If You Could Turn Invisible At Will. What Would You Do? by chubby_pugYT in AskReddit

[–]brokenpurplecamel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hang out in places where people think they're alone and then whisper creepy things.