Don't build a general-purpose API to power your own front end

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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