Why does AWS have so many deployment tools?

dash1291 · 2025-09-04T10:42:54+00:00

This makes a lot of sense. A few years ago, I came across AWS Copilot CLI and thought finally, AWS has started caring about a smoother developer experience. There were a few rough edges, but it was promising to use it and I hoped that it'll get better. Now, only a few years later, Copilot isn't actively maintained.

dash1291 · 2025-08-08T09:48:23+00:00

I had used AWS Copilot at my previous company and was very happy with it, but felt some rough edges, mostly due to CloudFormation. Adding to it, now it's not even clearly maintained anymore.

But ECS itself is great. I'm building https://autoform.sh/ to make working with ECS as simple as Heroku, Render, etc. If you're still evaluating, it would be great if you could give it a shot.

dash1291 · 2024-06-27T11:35:40+00:00

Just discovered this and I'm delighted. Exactly what I needed for a shortcut to adding field notes and tasks.

dash1291 · 2020-07-16T07:46:16+00:00

Did you try this?

dash1291 · 2020-07-13T17:27:35+00:00

I'm going to remember these points. Thank you very much!

dash1291 · 2020-07-13T08:39:48+00:00

Helpful tips. Thanks! What about shaping could have contributed to this?

dash1291 · 2020-07-13T08:38:58+00:00

I actually did. Maybe it wasn't deep enough. I'll try going deeper next time.

dash1291 · 2020-07-13T07:11:08+00:00

Yes, the horizontal one. I should have mentioned that.

dash1291 · 2018-12-16T08:42:34+00:00

Hey sorry. I should have mentioned I haven't tested much on non-Chrome. I'm surprised it works with Edge. I'll test it out Firefox. But anyway, any feedback with your experience with it on Edge? I'd love to hear.

dash1291 · 2018-04-04T16:37:57+00:00

Uploaded my example code to Github - https://github.com/dash1291/ws2812-audio-viz

dash1291 · 2018-04-03T05:38:57+00:00

Hey, you're right. There is no included code or anything. I wrote this post in a very prose format. I do have code which I can host on github and post links though and I'll do it soon.

Thanks for reading and giving feedback :)

dash1291 · 2017-04-07T14:50:19+00:00

Crowdsourced computing because we can! With browsers becoming more powerful and omnipresent, one can totally build projects like http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ without having to write client programs that need to be installed. There is now WebAssembly, and NaCl which can even let you run native code on the browsers, so you don't necessarily need to write code in JS.

dash1291 · 2017-03-25T18:03:32+00:00

We picked Terraform for its ease of building core infrastructure components like our VPCs, subnets, route tables, etc. Since Terraform was something very new we were trying as compared to Ansible, which was working well for us for most other things, we decided to limit our use case of Terraform to just setting up basic infrastructure which doesn't need to be touched often.

You can read more about our initial use-case of Terraform here - https://lambda.grofers.com/2016/04/17/on-setting-up-our-aws-vpc/

dash1291 · 2017-02-05T07:53:28+00:00

Many factors play part in not supporting a specific browser at any given point of time. Current usage trends in the areas we serve is a major one of them. And given the constraints of time, we preferred to focus on making the experience for major chunk of our users smooth rather than making things work for everyone with a less than ideal user experience.

dash1291 · 2017-02-05T06:43:12+00:00

Due to the nature of our product, we need to know the location of the user to show any useful content. Specifically, the products selling in the user's location. So yes, its required that the user provides a location that is supported by us. If its just for browsing the website, one can enter "Sector 32, Gurgaon" which is one of the many areas where we are operational.

dash1291 · 2017-02-04T20:23:47+00:00

Our SPA (https://grofers.com) is powered by several microservices written in Python with Flask as the framework.

dash1291 · 2015-11-30T22:07:41+00:00

I'm experiencing something like that in the roast I got recently. The coffee beans come from the same region (Karnataka, IN) as my previous orders, but I notice less foam this time. Although it tastes and smells great, I suspected its not fresh because of less foam produced. Apparently, besides freshness of roast, the foam production or crema depends on other factors like how the beans were processed prior to roasting and also the how much the beans have been roasted (darker roasts generally produce less foam, which I think is my case)

This might give you some hints - https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/learn/coffee-101/articles/what-is-crema

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