Use it and like it. If using aws is a requirement but you don’t want to get bogged down with their user experience it’s worth it IMO.
Have run into some aws quirks leaking out of their abstraction. But personally that has only made me say “man if they couldn’t figure out how to make this clean, I would have been toast dealing with it on my own”
FWIW I interned at a US nuclear plant. They intentionally don't upgrade to digital systems for fear of being hacked, everything in the plant was analog when I was there 6 years ago.
“Older readers may long for the good old days when companies that were actual monopolies would pretend to love their customers. Now we all work for companies that don't admit to being monopolies and actually hate their customers. Boy, how times have changed!”
Not always before, but always eventually and usually once I’m done with “exploration”. Testing done right should be a time saver in the long run! I think many people are turned off by testing and especially unit testing because it ends up being difficult and maintenance is more of a pain than it’s worth. There are many good strategies to make it easier that in my experience have yet to be well adopted:
It’s a shame new ones can’t be built! New reactor designs are far more efficient and safe. There are designs you could leave unattended with no power indefinitely and they would never melt down
The problem is we can’t build them cost effectively. Toshiba had to sell it’s 18 billion memory chip business to cover the losses of its nuclear division.
Yeah I used to work at a nuclear plant. They intentionally use all analog systems currently for fear of this. Almost nothing digital in the whole plant
Presumably you’re making the case that they grew quickly enough that by the time any competitors were aware of the potential of product they did have the money to fight infringement.
Even still, in the early days of their marketing campaign it would have been so easy for a foreign competitor to swoop in and make the same thing. I didn’t get the vibe that they grew that quickly, and I do get the vibe that there are foreign manufacturers on the hunt for ideas to copy.
“More egregiously, a Chinese firm nicked Seymour’s design, mass-produced the product, and sold it under the “Bionic Boot” name on Amazon.”
This is the most important line to me. I’ve heard so many horror stories along these lines.
Yet, does anyone here know why companies like Sarah Blakely’s Spanx didn’t suffer the same fate? Spanx is now a billion dollar company that launched with an easily clonable product.
She talks about how she filed a patent on her idea on her own with no lawyer and that was the only explanation. I don’t think she had a lot of money to fight cases.
Have run into some aws quirks leaking out of their abstraction. But personally that has only made me say “man if they couldn’t figure out how to make this clean, I would have been toast dealing with it on my own”