AWS lambda and 'serverless' to replace a cronjob
And paying Amazon for the privilege of doing so!
Well done... golf clap
And paying Amazon for the privilege of doing so!
Well done... golf clap
> The hourly cron runs about 720 times a month which is far below the 1,000,000 free invocations that lambda provides under their free tier.
This entire service (the 2 functions & 1 dynamo table) should run well under the AWS free tier. see https://aws.amazon.com/free/
This project greatly simplifies how we publish content in an elegant out of sight out of mind way.
Before, if someone was out of town, we would need to rely on others to push the merge button on posts for us. Now, the robots do it for us!
Avoiding AWS based solutions to "not rely on others" is like using a kerosene lamp in the center of Manhattan. You may be more self sufficient, but.... why?
... as for self-sufficiency, why not? You're trading freedom and independence for serfdom in Amazon's little kingdom. They'll seduce you with shit exactly like this -- stringing together pointless, useless services to achieve an end that in actuality requires 999999999% less machinery than what they sold you -- to make sure your next project is with them and all their comfy little tools at something 2x to 3x the price. The collective knowledge of running servers represented by a federated, disparate group of specialists slowly drains away from public access, only to re-coalesce behind private walls to enrich a bunch of greedy, already-rich fucks instead of the general public. (You can already see this in the declining quality of google results for technical queries)
Meanwhile lots of good admin guys lose their jobs and the world of software development continues its transformation into a cesspool of spoiled brat devs begging, neigh CRYING for Bezos/Nadella/etc to wipe their ass for them.
Welcome to the future! I'll take my self-sufficiency...
AWS isn't built for little static sites. It is built to host Amazon. And others likewise as big. The ability to do neat toys like this at a low cost, utilizing far more machinery than you would ever need to for such small project, is a happy byproduct.
> Meanwhile lots of good admin guys lose their jobs
Don't go all union-y on me! Frictional Unemployment is unavoidable. The reality is that services like AWS free up all those clearly intelligent (by virtue of being "good") admins to utilize their intellect elsewhere. We live in the age of the STEM shortage. If you can work a computer and can be described as "good", I won't worry for you.
FWIW, it's "nay" not "neigh"
Well, according to pingdom I hit 99.98% uptime with the dozen-or-so cheap little DO boxes I run for my firm's infrastructure. That's playing the dual roles of sole developer and sole support on those systems. My data pipeline collects records from hundreds of deployments worldwide, through all manner of diverse corporate IT environments. It really isn't that hard.
I'll agree with your points on frictional unemployment when the thing displacing them represents actual forward progress. AWS is a land grab, not progress.