Cloud, Why So Difficult?

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  • tailscale

    The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

  • Tailscale [1] can do this. I've always had a limit of how much networking I can grok, and Taiscale basically let's me run a 90s style LAN across clouds and my local network like they're all connected to the same switch and VLAN. No port forwarding, firewall rules, or subnet management.

    It can be made even more secure with some relatively incompatible ACLs sprinkled in too.

    1. https://tailscale.com/

  • terraform-cdk

    Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • terraform-aws-lambda

    Terraform module, which takes care of a lot of AWS Lambda/serverless tasks (build dependencies, packages, updates, deployments) in countless combinations 🇺🇦

  • It’s also weird not to know about terraform modules. There are a lot of things you _can_ configure because there are a lot of things people need to configure but if you’re using something like https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-lambd... it’s only a couple of lines of config for a Lambda.

  • It’s also weird not to know about terraform modules. There are a lot of things you _can_ configure because there are a lot of things people need to configure but if you’re using something like https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-lambd... it’s only a couple of lines of config for a Lambda.

  • mighty-snitch

    noticing and preventing network requests should be easy

  • learning cloud is not necessarily using cloud for all things.

    cloud adds legitimate new capabilities to every engineer.

    if i’m on coffeeshop wifi with my low power laptop, and i need to do something intense like compile linux, i’m sol.

    unless i know aws. then i can open a new terminal, spin up a massive spot instance for 19.27 minutes, get that done, then self destruct. [1]

    being able to test lambda to s3 io, or ec2 to s3 io, with the same ease one uses grep and sed, is for great good. also it’s fun.

    1. https://github.com/nathants/mighty-snitch/blob/master/kernel...

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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