Common problems while working with Cloud

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Hello people, great to be here.

I wanted to ask a question that I have been curious about for a while. If you know me you know where I work, if you don’t know, I won’t name the company right now :slight_smile:

I am curious to get your feedback/opinion on something:

  1. When you work with a project with any Cloud provider, what confuses you?
  2. What would be your way of learning about knowledge gaps?
  3. What would help you adopt the tech stack better?

Take care and #haveagreatforum hahahaha

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I’m mostly working with GCP as of now, and for me the biggest pain point is typically the fact that this is aimed at people who know what they are doing :smiley:

Re 1. The amount of various services and approaches is astonishing – so many ways to end up with a huge bill. The documentation typically is super extensive, maybe to the point of overwhelming. At the same time in the end the entire configuration may be just a few strings and checkboxes…

Re 2. In my case it’s just learning when it’s needed. For instance today it was how to setup VPC and make it work with Dataconnect. Never heard of it before :smiley: I may sometimes watch a YouTube video or something, but there’s so many topics that it leads to decision paralysis. It helps I used to work with “classic” backend systems though, so I don’t feel that intimidated when I need to learn something.

Re 3. I often like to have some in-context documentation in form of tooltips, suggestions, case studies. I.e. when configuring a given service (let’s say Cloud SQL instance) – being able to see some sort of configuration examples would be helpful. How big instance do I need to serve this many customers across this kind of geographical regions etc. It’s like a witchcraft you have to learn the hard way.

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All the modern clouds are prohibitively difficult to use - it’s terrible. I of course don’t know anything about what you’re building, but I would recommend sticking with Cloud Run and a database for as long as you can get away with it!

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For this specifically I’d need to see how it compares to the cloud provider I’m used to

I’m looking for something which has one or more of the following:

  • Cheaper but has the same performance
  • Better developer experience - e.g. I can setup / deploy quicker
  • Better debugging tools
  • Better features / functionality
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