US product company with a portion of their engineering team based in India. Suddenly their India costs cannot be expensed in the same year and they can only deduct 1/15th of the costs. There’s no guarantee they would be in business for 15 years to realise the deferred tax benefits.
But lots of times a plastic bucket, even with a leak, is a better tool for the job than an extruder, mold, and warehouse full of polymer.
I had to build a parallel CI pipeline once that was like: when this, run a FaaS function, then when this that or whipesnicket, run one of these other functions, then run this thing that moves some things from here to there and posts the results to zulip chat.
I literally spent 2 hours in AWS docs, got to "ugh, don't wanna know this, unlikely to use again" and then spent one hour in the serverless docs building it that way, and then it ran for 4 years. (Last year, I finally replaced it with GitHub Actions.)
Admittedly this wasn't a profound and moving tale of heroic ops or anything, but the Serverless framework proved to be pretty nifty for my use case. (Haven't used it since, but would again in a similar circumstance.)
I stopped using the Severless framework when CDK came out. For simple cases it's still fine I guess but a lot of time I found myself falling back to plain CloudFormation (ugh) or relying in plugins with questionable maintenance status. I would not recommend it for new projects and even AWS SAM makes applying some best practices like least privilege principle easier.
CDK is pretty good, the one main painpoint is that some resources are not supported so again you are going to revert to writing cloudformation. I really wish one of AWS’ criteria for “done” when a mew resource is added is that it must be added to the CDK.
Used to be always on Twitter, YouTube news channels, Reddit and various online publications. But over time, I've cut everything out except HN & The Economist. The Economist has a free-market bias but gives a decent round of up what's going on in the world.
