Re:The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
by afandian on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:21PM
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Agreed. The AWS developer docs are great but the first few chapters in e.g. SQS and SNS were "here's how to do it manually". Cloudformation is more of an appendix. Though, devils advocate, if they all started with "install Terraform" that might be a tall order and put people off.
We recently looked into AWS MSK (managed Kafka). Many of the crucial tasks, such as creation of topics, were more or less left as an exercise to the reader with some pretty distant dots to join.
If they'd been forced to explain how to automate all the necessary tasks in MSK, they might have had to make better tools. Or we might have given up on it sooner.
Re:The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
by robohoe on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:23PM
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That’s how Transit Gateway documentation was in the beginning as well. A LOT of information was left out and it took them more than a year to provide a best practices page.
We recently looked into AWS MSK (managed Kafka). Many of the crucial tasks, such as creation of topics, were more or less left as an exercise to the reader with some pretty distant dots to join.
If they'd been forced to explain how to automate all the necessary tasks in MSK, they might have had to make better tools. Or we might have given up on it sooner.