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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by cmckn on Monday October 12, 2020 @08:21PM (#24761044)
Couldn’t agree more, the dev experience was awful. You basically have to develop against public AWS services, my dev machine became a glorified terminal. They do seem to be iterating on the tooling quickly, but I wouldn’t use it again if I had a choice.

Edit: CloudFormation was also painful for me, the docs were sparse and there were very few examples that helped me out.

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by rajamaka on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:59PM (#24761817)
> the docs were sparse

Over 5000 pages of documentation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

> very few examples that helped me out

AWS provide an example for most common services, plus there are thousands of other community supplied examples out there.

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cloudformation-templates

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by cmckn on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:25PM (#24771007)
SAM templates are a subset of CloudFormation templates; that PDF could be three times as long and still not have the content I needed.

Yes there are examples, but there wasn’t one at the time that mapped to what I was trying to accomplish. Because, again, SAM templates are not one-for-one CloudFormation templates.

I found the community around SAM to be very limited. One of the many reasons I’ve moved to the Kubernetes ecosystem.

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