The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced 

7/4 is really cool .. but as our brains are so used to 4/4, we as an audience actually start to think about the beat instead of 100% on what you're trying to teach. Choose your moments for the "weird" beats.😊Putting the right sound to video isn't easy if you want it to make sense. Takes loads of learning and practice.

The riff is based, just like your video

@@zejwier5442 What does that mean, “it’s based”?

the music didn’t bother me (meter not volume) but kudos for taking feedback and iterating quickly. it’s almost like a metaphor for what the video is advocating

HUH! based on the other thread, i tried lowering my speed from 2x down to “normal” and now the riff *is* super distracting to me. interesting

I used NixOs for about 4 days and when straight back to debian😂

​@@xnegusxNot having to do any of that interface or hosts stuff looked interesting, why did you go back, seems like all can be done in one file.

​@@whannabi because its an abstraction and when things go tits up or you dont have out of the box compatibility for what you wanna do you need the linux skills that was considered too annoying along with an in-depth understanding of how to do things the nix way

I use guix btw

@@xnegusx I used NixOS for a week also, went straight back to Arch 🤣🤣 (But I feel like I should give it another try) 🙃

Is it too loud or should I not have put it in at all?

@@tom-delalande Its just too loud IMO. However it might be beneficial to mute it occasionally to highlight the most important parts of your monologue.

​@@tom-delalande Music is nice, but your voice should be clear and stand apart from the music

@@tom-delalandekeep the music. Not the way it is of course, but it does add quite a bit of atmosphere for the video which I enjoy quite a bit.

I simply paid attention to the music a lot more than the voiceover and the voiceover sounded more like mumbling rather than trying to be very clear on how you communicate to the viewers. As far as I know, one of the WCAG standards state that the music needs to be 20dB below voiceover. In fact, I was paying attention to the sub-bass coming from my subwoofer.

he did all the work. If not for him youd say AWS is easier

also, maybe you'd want to look into podman

Didn't expect NixOS and love the surprise

Developers are using clickdrops?!! What are they getting paid for? More importantly, how much are they getting paid? Most importantly, how do I get that job?

that’s an interesting take, @mrdavidrees, but i think it reinforces the point of the video. being reductive, “we do it because bigger companies do it”.

You're right, but I wish you weren't. The majority of fellow engineers I've had the misfortune of working with don't deserve the title. Expecting people to have basic proficiency with commons tools is asking too much in the current industry.

This was my exact thought. A single rockstar can do this, but as you scale to bigger teams or use lower skill developers for cost, then you end up needing to do a lot of teaching to make it work, increasing the onboarding time drastically

@@tigerofdoom if basic sysadmin proficiency makes you a rockstar now, this industry is doomed

When "production" means you're Amazon. I have seen Transport System Operators (Sometimes state owned companies owning/controlling infrastructure to move natural gas for example) using 5$ VM to host auctions. IMO even docker is sometimes an example of prematured 'optimization' and unnecessary overhead. E.g. self contained dotnet + SQLite can often do good enough job but people and companies chose to pay for SQL Server, Amazon, Azure etc for enterprise something that has like 50 users, or 5000 hits or DB updates/inserts per day. And when the service fail, phone and mail still work well enough.

@@denissornI mean you just need high availability so it means are least 2 replicas of everything of two servers etc. Just running on one node doesn’t cut it, can’t even reboot it for updates at that point.

@@EraYaN Sometimes you do, but many companies and use cases can do reasonably well even without it. Also, old school way of achieving HA still exists. There are dedicated servers available for lease for like 5 bucks. 2 can be enough, plus reverse proxy, DB replication or similar.

@@denissorn Point being that it quickly become less simple, and often stuff it in contracts with customers so it’s not an option to not do it. In my experience colo is never really simpler it just might be cheaper in the long run.

@@EraYaN there are obviously different situations and use cases, but (IMO) people are too easily influenced and affected by hype, and trends (real or fake/advertised) created by multi billion corporations. Kinda related I think i have noticed how in 'developed' EU language can work as a barrier. MongoDB usually still comes in a package together with JS where I live (most of these could literally stick with sqlite and be fine.), because reasons and 'full stack' (someone in some HR dep probably confused MERN stack with full stack lol).

IMO the sweet spot for cloud is when you've grown enough that managing dozens of machines with your web app, your DB replicas, your queues and background workers (and don't forget staging/QA environments) becomes legitimately a hassle, but not grown enough to justify hiring full-time DBA & Linux admin staff.

@@CodecrafterArtemis Well, like anything, it should be looked at on a case by case basis. Personally, I wouldn't define that as the sweet spot, as it gives the impression it's the only scenario in which one would want a cloud environment. It's not black and white. After all, a lot of companies are neither full cloud nor strictly on-prem, but a hybrid to suit their individual needs. No matter if you're a small business or a large IT organization, there's immense value in fast & quickly scalable systems with a strong internet backbone that can be deployed in seconds with no strings attached. It's easier to hire an AWS engineer than an engineer with specific skill sets across particular vendors, an issue particularly pervasive on both the infrastructure & networking sides. A problem that is exacerbated by the shortage of IT engineers in most Western nations. Hiring ill equipped employees that require months to transition can affect performance of the department, and cost a lot of money. I could talk about this from so many angles. But take IT security as an example alone. Having an entire environment automatically indexed for IPAM, DCIM, SIEM, NMS and CM purposes, managed via IAM policies, separated between accounts & projects (important especially when a corporation has various subsidiaries), visible and automated via sophisticated APIs, built with ZTNA & compliance in mind, protected using a combination between ACLs, security groups and policies with pre-configured compute engines ... is a godsend! That's a lot of variables for any company to overcome by itself alone. Why take on all the responsibility of getting all of this correct from the start when you can leverage a company that specializes it? It's not worth the risk of saving a buck by rolling out your own DC, only to the lose fortunes in hacks, PR disasters, lawsuit, failed audits, over or under-provisioned systems, installation & deployment delays, etc.

If cloud environments are not designed with mom&pop shops in mind, I wonder why the AWS Academy courses (had to take one for university course credit, but did not pay for the certificate) use a small cafe as the example application. I see no need for a coffee shop - or ANY small, or even medium business - to use most of the technology covered in that course. None of those usecases need to set up massive infrastructure across multiple availability zones, complex VPC setups, RDS, IAM, CloudFront, Lambdas, or even S3 buckets (Yes! You almost certainly don't actually need those!). Some business usecases might 'need' one or two of those services, but you will probably get results as good or better by just renting a single Hetzner box, or maybe two if you want redundancy, and maybe putting it behind Cloudflare.

@@animowany111 I guess the main reason a "mom&pop shop" would want something like AWS is because it's supposedly easier than setting up the servers yourself... Then again, I'm poking around AWS and it feels like certified confusopoly.

my isp has optional and free dynamic dns. you name your subdomain and pick from a couple of domains. they manage it, you don't have to install anything.

​@@SebastianSiposgood for you

Or rely on solutions like cloudflare tunnel, ngrok

i am forced to use ipv6 cause my ipv4 is cgnat:-(

It reminds me of that one real-life horror story where a Netlify user got charged millions because some bot wanted to DoS it

+1 for traefik. Can also do automagic letsencrypt certs for you.

reading that last sentence gave me an aneurysm

Can you explain what is nixos and what you mean by tuernas?

@@Parallaxxx28 Have you tried google? True NAS is his file storage NixOS is a linux distro as shown in the video you can setup entirely with a single config file.

Hey, if you want to remove your spof on truenas, check out longhorn. It stores data on the nodes and replicates them. The data is not replicated across all nodes, but across N nodes (3 by default) so you're not actually losing all your storage.

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Why would this be any less reliable?

@@doesntmatter6084 no backup power, automated backups, physical security, fire suppression, connection redundancy, hardware redundancy, etc, etc, etc...

@@doesntmatter6084 The average reliability rate for a cloud provider is 99.999%, meaning less than 6 minutes per year. Hosting it yourself means any time your network goes down, any time any part of your network needs to be updated/restarted, power outages, computer/server problems, etc., your service goes down. I don't know about you, but that would equate to many hours per year for me... Especially with power outages and network outages due to bad weather. I'd also point out that if you add up the cost of having, maintaining, and replacing those devices to avoid outages, you're very likely spending a decent amount already.

@@doesntmatter6084 Old Macbooks like to die.

@@Jonathan1234000 we’re they hosting this on an old MacBook?

go back to self hosting!

As you see in the video, you have to know a lot of technologies to self host. And a lot isn't really explained in the video, like how to protect it from attackers, how to prevent DDOS, how do set up backups, etc. The internet can be a rough place. Having the hand of a cloud provider protecting you, can be a nice thing. It's not easier to self host. But it's good to have the knowledge. What is your side project about? There are a lot of different technology options. You definitely don't need certificates for AWS. There are certificates for Linux, docker, etc. as well. You don't need them, too. Both "worlds" have their advantages and disadvantages. The video definitely doesn't provide a neutral view on it. But it provides an interesting example of how one could set up a server themselves.

I'm trying to focus on the video but the bgm is such a vibe.

If you have a repeatable way to deploy (Kubernetes), then you can deploy to a different server (of a different provider) and switch you dns settings. This shouldn’t be a problem for static sites. When it’s a dynamic site (with a database) the data has to be synchronized as well, which can be more challenging.

i’d personally advocate for using a cheap VPS provider. do everything else the same, but don’t let yourself be at the mercy of your utility providers

Docker is more flexible, you could move it to non nixos, or test it on your laptop, or deploy it in a swarm

@@mdxggxek1909but then why install nix os on the server? the whole point of nix os is the have a declarative configuration so no matter what it will be configured the same. with flakes you're even sure you have the exact same version of the software since it uses the git hash to in worst case rebuild the package. nixos can do everything docker can and more. you could even startup new vms just by declaring it in the config and rebuilding the system. and if something breaks, every state is safed for rollback. sorry i daily drive nixos and i just love being able to rebuild my pc with a single command. you could even just boot into the live iso and have the partitions made for you, via nix config.

Look into port forwarding. Your home router uses NAT so that multiple devices can share the same public IP address. You can configure it (via port forwarding) to forward inbound connections to your public IP on a given port to a private IP (your server) in your network.

agreed that if you’re fine with downtime during burst then zero downtime deployments aren’t prima facie required. however, i’d still want them for my own workflow (but I’d likely speed up the whole deploy loop a bit more)

capex vs opex (capital / upfront expenses vs operating / ongoing expenses)

@@efkastner Thanks. I have copied into my notes so I don't forget again.

I can't comment since I haven't used Kotlin Compose for more than just a quick test. But it looks very promising, I hope to do a comparison in the future.

This video is about deploying servers 😉