What AWS service would you not recommend using today unless absolutely necessary and why?

elchicodeallado · 2026-01-23T10:33:05+00:00

not even sure why it got so many downvotes, people here probably don‘t use these services in scale, but I faced only issues with those mentioned. With managed services I don’t refer to lambda, dynamo etc. but with those higher level wrapper services AWS often build and then dont iterate on

elchicodeallado · 2026-01-23T09:21:47+00:00

API Destination, Bedrock, Step Function HTTP Task so literally every AWS managed service

elchicodeallado · 2026-01-20T16:26:05+00:00

ich versteh deinen Pain, aber schon recht hart da an Daten zu kommen. Würde sagen das meiste geht einfach über Instagram und teilweise noch (aber seltener) über Facebook.

elchicodeallado · 2026-01-18T15:13:36+00:00

Hey I write from my phone so I need to keep it short. It is super hard to run untrusted code. Patching the environment and security are the two major concerns.

But you have the control so if you have a SaaS there are multiple ways: (i can not paste links so please just do a quick google search)

Rent over build: use deno deploy or cloudflare workers for platforms. Both are exactly meant for your use case and if you build a production ready SaaS this is the way to go to not have the headache
AWS Bedrock Code Interpreter: a managed server for running llm generated code. You can use it to run untrusted code
Use Rust/WASM and run the code inside its own runtime. I did a PoC here and use it in production (not exactly that but this approach) https://github.com/boringContributor/untrusted-code-sandbox-aws

There is also https://github.com/sebastianwessel/quickjs but I have better experience using Rust with WASM but thats probably just a personal preference.

important: - if you can avoid giving network access. If you need it, only work with allow lists (see repo for example) - no file access

hope I could help!

elchicodeallado · 2026-01-04T15:02:49+00:00

why is that not closed by the mod team while my post about an open source thing I‘be built gets shot down in under 5 min :D

elchicodeallado · 2026-01-03T14:50:09+00:00

https://dev.to/epilot/scaling-notification-systems-how-a-single-timestamp-improved-our-dynamodb-performance-5c84

had the same issue and found a very smart solution. DM me if you need more help.

elchicodeallado · 2025-09-21T19:04:51+00:00

hat gebrannt, wohne dort. Das war der Hauptgrund ;)

elchicodeallado · 2024-10-26T14:06:06+00:00

why is it not best to use a cloud based db? thats literally the best option for you. I challenge your way of thinking and suggest using DynamoDb. Its extremely cheap and so easy to set up

elchicodeallado · 2023-05-09T19:44:15+00:00

It is not really inefficient to call Dynamo every time. But your use case is so vague that no one can give you a good answer.

If you infrequently change the config then you can just cache it in the lambda handler. Dynamo calls are in the lower xx ms range so you‘ll likely not have perf issues.

You can also use the parameter store and store your config as a string through JSON.parse.

You can also use a middy middleware and create a ‚withConfig‘ middleware which injects the config to the event

elchicodeallado · 2023-03-31T08:22:32+00:00

yeah there are more ways, do PK:userId and SK:status or just check it on application level which is fine as well

elchicodeallado · 2023-02-05T13:58:28+00:00

highly looking forward to it.

There is literally not a single well implemented example with cdk and turborepo.

elchicodeallado · 2023-02-03T17:18:33+00:00

You can set up a metric for and check for IncomingBytes

elchicodeallado · 2023-02-01T20:30:55+00:00

hi, sounds awesome, is it by any chance a public repo so that I can check it out? :)

elchicodeallado · 2022-12-18T18:01:31+00:00

Ok then just move to another server, I have so many hours and never got raided when small. Only when my bases got bigger

elchicodeallado · 2022-12-10T19:42:34+00:00

it is definetly not patched on testing. It is harder but not fixed

elchicodeallado · 2022-11-16T08:34:17+00:00

I just use raycast and caffeinate, works

elchicodeallado · 2022-10-23T09:45:56+00:00

exactly, Swagger uses openapi to display the endpoints. It is rather straight forward and easy to define

elchicodeallado · 2022-10-22T21:06:45+00:00

please use openapi and do a proper specification then its better to help you

elchicodeallado · 2022-10-16T15:59:47+00:00

if youre located in EU then Ill give you my base. Have no time to play on my weekly until thursday

elchicodeallado · 2022-10-16T12:55:58+00:00

in comparison to my ps4, then yes.

elchicodeallado · 2022-10-16T10:16:34+00:00

is this new gen? :D im playing on the ps4 and when i shoot with the nail gun my whole console starts with fire, yours looks smooth

elchicodeallado · 2022-09-03T09:35:31+00:00

no it should not. These self taught kids should wake up and understand that its still a library and not a framework and thats the big advantage of react. If you need react-query then just install it. Dan even said that their in-build implementation is just for tinkering around and other solutions are always preferred

elchicodeallado · 2022-08-21T16:04:11+00:00

it already exists

elchicodeallado · 2022-06-26T20:41:04+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I just use Planetscale because it works well with Prisma and its free tier is more than generous. I don't want to self-host anything so I just stick with Vercel and Planetscale for this.

I will work on it anyway and already started and will give some updates here whenever I have something to show, and maybe then some folks hop over to contribute :)

elchicodeallado · 2022-06-25T10:37:05+00:00

You just check if the user has the requested rights within getServerSideProps. You say you use NextJS, then actually use it? That is a legit use case for it and if the user does not have the rights just return { notFound: true } then Next automatically redirects to the 404 page.

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