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Re:Don't build a general-purpose API to power your own front... by ransom1538 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:52AM (#28520363)
Nailed. It. Yes. I work with GCP (google console) for work ALL DAY. It is a layered gross mess of SPA. Example, I need to list the servers. It will take 10-20 seconds to load the list of 30 servers. I don't care about the cool glitching transitions or boxes with fades. I want to list the servers. Hit the back button? OH WELL! All your session data is now lost. Anytime I type in GCP the computer hangs while it processes thousands of lines of javascript to see if I will autocomplete. When I click "create" my browser tab hangs while my macbook pro fan cranks up.

I want to rewrite the GCP console with HTML, using their api and not one damn line of JS.

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Re:Don't build a general-purpose API to power your own front... by rawoke083600 on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:53PM (#28646407)
100% ! I know it's not comparing apples to apples.. but do have a look at Hetzner Cloud UX. It's FANTASTIC ! Super minimal, functional and I can almost bet they didn't use a"UX Designer" I got the feeling they gave the programmer-already-on-staff that could name the most colours the UX-Design-Job.

IT's such a joy to spin up servers and work in that UX compared to GCP and AWS !! Scaleway had a good one a few year back, but now every page feels like a "marketing flyer" that screams BUY-ME all the time :/

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Re:Don't build a general-purpose API to power your own front... by password4321 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:38AM (#28526427)
I think this is their way of encouraging people to use the CLI.
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Re:Don't build a general-purpose API to power your own front... by zbentley on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:37AM (#28550921)
I have the same challenges with the AWS ui, managing thousands of EC2 instances. While the CLI makes it a little simpler, it's still slow as molasses.

Some of these problems are because of frontend cruft (perhaps with the goal of nudging users towards APIs) to be sure. But plenty of them are due to the reality that the cloud providers' backends often do not, ironically, work very well at scale.

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