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Cloud, why so difficult? πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

Elad Ben-Israel on January 24, 2024

A manifesto for cloud-oriented programming. Don't get me wrong, I love the cloud! It has empowered me to build amazing things, and completely ch...
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Elad Ben-Israel

All abstractions can break when things go wrong but that doesn’t mean they are not powerful and valuable. Abstractions are the essence of software as they enable developers to deliver more value to our users faster. When things don’t work, we gotta open the hood. That’s been like that with software since the dawn of computers ❀️

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Matija Sosic

I love the compiler approach! We're also building a language (wasp-lang.dev/), so I'm aware of the challenges that come with it? Have you implemented your LSP yet?

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Chris Rybicki • Edited

Wasp looks sick! Yes, Wing's toolchain is designed with an LSP-first approach so it reuses the same code for parsing and type checking with the core compiler. :-)

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Matija Sosic

nice, the same!

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Ranjan Dailata • Edited

Have you guys heard about pulumi. If not, welcome to Pulumi, much user friendly, code with your favorite programming language and target your favorite cloud of your choice. They are the best one to refer. I love them :)

Advice - Do not reinvent the wheel. Humans will be dead, AI's will take over LOL

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Marc Seitz

Love this manifesto! Great read and converted me ⭐️

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Bap

Man.. really enjoyed that one. Keep dem coming :D

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Fakie Tap

Very good read, thanks!

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Elad Ben-Israel

Thank you

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Nevo David

Great stuff!

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Nathan Tarbert

What a great write-up @eladb!

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ashish

superb, resonates with my thoughts about working with cloud!

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Dan Jones

The idea that you to have to push to the cloud with each iteration is bonkers. I haven't worked like that since 2008.

Since then, I've got all the servers I need (minus occasionally some 3rd party APIs) running locally. At each iteration, I point curl at localhost and test it myself.

I have worked from a plane with no Wi-Fi recently. When my Internet goes out at home, I keep working.

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Dan

Really lovely read!

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Shai Ber

Great read, thanks!