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Caylent
Company blog · trek10.com/blogprogramming
Caylent is the company blog at trek10.com, writing about programming. Since 2017, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Leveraging ULIDs to create order in unordered datastores”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Caylent's trek10 posts on AWS topics such as DynamoDB single-table modelling, Cloud9 workflows, Fargate pricing and AWS diagramming. Only one commenter explicitly praises a post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Caylent is an AWS cloud consulting and engineering company that helps organizations drive cloud evolution.
Most-linked posts?
- Leveraging ULIDs to create order in unordered datastores3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-15
- Analyzing how AWS builds their own serverless apps2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-15
- The business case for serverless2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-08
- AWS Fargate vs. Lambda: Comparing cost, performance, ease of use2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
What Hacker News says?
Author here. HN in a lot of cases has readership that I’d put in the segment of developers that should absolutely not be using Cloud9 daily. I personally take using Cloud9 to the absolute extreme( https://www.trek10.com/blog/i-buy-a-new-work-machine-everyda... ), having my Cloud9 env setup scripted and creating a new one every day/project. I don’t really recommend that approach for most folks. Anecdotally, it has pa…
Comment linking /blog/i-buy-a-new-work-machine-everyday
on “Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS”Submitted Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS as a story · 212 points
HN discussionI've seen a very good article on this: https://www.trek10.com/blog/dynamodb-single-table-relational... . It's an insightful dive into how KV stores can model relational data. However I also feel that these 'NoSQL can do relational modelling!' proponents are kind of hijacking the term: a relational model is understood to be based on relational algebra, and DynamoDB's Everything is One Big Table design ain't it. NoSQL…
Comment linking /blog/dynamodb-single-table-relational-modeling
on “SQL vs. NoSQL Is the Wrong Distinction”Submitted Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB as a story · 207 points
HN discussionSource on the price comparison? Or did you mean that Lambda is 1000x cheaper than EC2 [1][2]? It's obviously load dependent but functions-style code is going to typically be cheaper than even the smallest EC2 instance while handling more load (provided your RAM/CPU usage fits within the envelope it's optimized around). Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare on R2 and Workers is even cheaper than Lambda@Edge (provided your…
Comment linking /blog/lambda-cost
on “Longbet: By 2027, software will be metered/sold by the second”Submitted From relational DB to a single DynamoDB table as a story · 195 points
HN discussionShameless plug: I wrote AWSets[1], which can be used to do some of this (although the graphs aren't as pretty). It was written because at work we regularly interact with hundreds of AWS accounts and wanted something to quickly scan/catalog all of the resources (launch blog post explains more [2]). It's free to run locally (doesn't use or require Config), the data is normalized & output as JSON for you to do whatever…
Comment linking /blog/awsets-aws-resource-listing-made-easy
on “Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams”Submitted Amazon EventBridge: The biggest thing since AWS Lambda as a story · 178 points
HN discussionFargate isn't really expensive? It does have a premium but I wouldn't say 'really expensive'. https://www.trek10.com/blog/fargate-pricing-vs-ec2
Comment linking /blog/fargate-pricing-vs-ec2
on “Benchmarking Container Scaling on AWS”Submitted AWS Fargate vs. Lambda: Comparing cost, performance, ease of use as a story · 11 points
HN discussionEvery technology has some degree of lock-in. Serverless has tradeoffs like anything else. The question is, do the benefits outweigh the costs? I recently did a writeup on this that helped me work through my own thoughts on the issue: https://www.trek10.com/blog/think-faas-podcast-talkin-lock-i...
Comment linking /blog/think-faas-podcast-talkin-lock-in/
on “Serverless has stamped a big DEPRECATED on containers”Submitted Show HN: AWSets – AWS Resource listing made easy as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Lambda Debugger: Remote Debug Live Lambda Functions with Chrome DevTools as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Lambda vs. Fargate: cost, performance, ease of use as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing how AWS builds their own serverless apps as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Examining how AWS builds their own serverless apps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudWatch Metrics: The Unsung Hero of Monitoring Your AWS Environment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leveraging ULIDs to create order in unordered datastores as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons to avoid serverless as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three Cost-Effective Design Patterns for AWS IoT Data Ingestion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Re:Invent – Internet of Things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ULIDs to query S3 objects by time without a backing metadata store as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CI/CD on AWS: A Pragmatic Approach as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning legacy databases into event sources as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Fargate vs. EC2 pricing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Common fallacies about serverless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ‘Why We're Excited About AWS AppSync’ – Think FaaS Podcast as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we're excited about AWS AppSync as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enforcing the two-person rule with AWS CodePipeline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Gotchas for ARM-Based Lambda as a story · 2 points
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