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1. cthos 🐱 31 min later

   @zachleat That's... "fun"? Lemme know if you need a hand.

   1. Zach Leatherman 36 min later

      @cthos appreciate it!

2. Chris⚡️Arter 🤘 33 min later

   @zachleat haha I’ve done the same. It’s crazy how many dev tooling subscriptions can be replaced by getting good with GitHub actions & scripting.

   1. Zach Leatherman 37 min later

      @chrisarter whew, yeah! lots of amazon resellers out there, too

3. James Doc 52 min later

   @zachleat Have you looked at serverless framework? https://www.serverless.com/

   Really handy.

   Unless by 'directly to lamdba' you don't want a middleman... In which case ignore this.

   1. Zach Leatherman 57 min later

      @jamesdoc no—hard to know if it will save me money or not based on the pricing page

      1. James Doc 1 hr later

         @zachleat That is one of the hardest questions in serverless.

         Serverless framework doesn't need the paid element; it's a yml config which sets up lambda, deploys, etc. You can trigger it locally, or through a GitHub action, etc.

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

            @jamesdoc ah yeah—I’m currently in the “I have a production project that is costing more than I’d like due to usage levels and I want to try to reduce costs” phase

4. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

   in order to upload a file to amazon you need to create an s3 bucket, sure.

   the one thing we know for sure is that uploads over 10MB will tax the amazon upload process beyond scalable comprehension

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      in order to use that file from your bucket in your lambda as a layer it needs to be in the same aws region, sure.

      the one thing we know for sure is that servers are not allowed to communicate outside of their municipality

      1. Jason Garber 3 hr later

         @zachleat it’s called localhost for a reason zach

         1. Zach Leatherman 18 hr later

            @jgarber I’m considering putting a server in my house at this point 😅

            1. Jason Garber 20 hr later

               @zachleat a literal home page!

               1. Zach Leatherman 20 hr later

                  @jgarber a personal home page, …wait

            2. Jason Garber 20 hr later

               @zachleat also had the same intrusive thought on an increasingly frequent cadence

      2. cthos 🐱 3 hr later

         @zachleat You're speedrunning all of the gotchas, and I'm here for it.

   2. Cory 2 hr later

      @zachleat 10mb is nowhere near enough for me to upload all my javascript

      1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

         @cory ISOMORPHIC NODE_MODULES coming soon in jordan peele’s newest film

         1. Cory 2 hr later

            @zachleat it's going to win a grammy

   3. Jason Garber 3 hr later

      @zachleat

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5. Matt Gaunt-Seo 2 hr later

   @zachleat I went down this rabbit hole before and it's definitely a slog to get something working and AWS does nothing to help along the way, but cloudformation was an ok way to make progress and document the service.

   Once I got it working it was fairly reliable.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @matt well where was this advice an hour ago 😅

      (I’ll have a look, thank you!)

      1. Matt Gaunt-Seo 3 hr later

         @zachleat This is my basic ass project that has a few lambda functions: https://github.com/gauntface/focus-api/blob/main/template.json

         If you find any nicer options / improvements please let me know.

         1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

            @matt (I think this may be private!)

            1. Matt Gaunt-Seo 3 hr later

               @zachleat ah sorry, invited you as a collaborator if you want to peak

   2. Jed Schmidt 5 hr later

      @matt @zachleat say what you will about chatgpt, but having it write cfn files is great.

      1. Zach Leatherman 19 hr later

         @jed @matt you don’t enjoy writing YAML by hand in TextEdit.app?

6. genehack 2 hr later

   @zachleat the “inf” directory of https://git.genehack.net/genehack/auto-tooter has a minimal terraform configuration that does exactly that. Happy to answer questions about it.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @genehack it’s too late to switch horses now 😅

      1. genehack 2 hr later

         @zachleat if nothing else, it should document all the parts you need, as far as IAM policies, etc.

         1. Zach Leatherman 19 hr later

            @genehack appreciate all help at this point, thank you!

7. Stuart Langridge 2 hr later

   @zachleat just so I understand this: you’ve historically used paid-for services which deploy to AWS for you? There is a useful middle ground between this and using SAM and the AWS sdk directly; stuff which runs on your machine. (Apologies if this is condescendingly obvious and you know it!) I used to use sls, but they increasingly want you to use their service: instead, I recommend architect at https://arc.codes. It’s nice, and the team (@brianleroux, @macdonst) are helpful :)

   1. Brian LeRoux 💚 2 hr later

      @sil @zachleat @macdonst always happy to help 🙏 we've def hit all the branches, fixed all the bugs, and papered over all the wtf haha

      1. Simon MacDonald 3 hr later

         @brianleroux @sil @zachleat gawd yes! As someone who has been banging his head up against cloud formation for 2 days please let us help save you that pain.

         1. Zach Leatherman 19 hr later

            @macdonst @brianleroux @sil I will definitely be learning more about this approach! I’m learning the painful way first because I’m broken inside 😅

            1. Simon MacDonald 19 hr later

               @zachleat @brianleroux @sil same 😂

               1. Brian LeRoux 💚 21 hr later

                  @macdonst @zachleat @sil

                  evergreen post

                  https://indieweb.social/@brianleroux/112798691886583834