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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Learn Amazon Web Services In A Month Of Lunches</h1>
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2020-12-31
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/aws/">#aws</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/it/">#it</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-2/">#stars:2</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2017/">#published:2017</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34013923-learn-amazon-web-services-in-a-month-of-lunches">GoodReads Summary</a>:</p>
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<p>AWS gives users the networking, compute, and security services they need without
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making them pay for anything they're not actually using. With almost a hundred
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individual AWS services, putting all the pieces together is not a simple
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thing. That's where this book can help.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>Some points here:</p>
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<p>(-) Lots of screenshots. I know this is just a personal issue, not something
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that is inherent bad, but I have to put this as a negative point for two
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reasons: First, these images are very low quality in the ePub version; Second,
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the book focuses too much on the screenshots, without focusing on what the
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problem, solution and concepts are; "Click there, type this, click complete"
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happens a lot in the book, which shouldn't be bad if, at least, it explained
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why you clicked there and typed that. I'm not even sure if the images are
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still up to date -- some references are really out of date already, like
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saying to use Ubuntu 16.04. It would be a lot more useful to explain the
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concepts and then show how to apply them, either by using the web interface of
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the command line interface.</p>
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<li>
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<p>(-) Speaking of command line, the book praises the tool, have a full chapter
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about it, tell how good it is and then... nothing. The following chapters
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completely ignore it. Again, this seem like a missed oportunity to explain
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concepts and then show how to apply them using the web interface and the CLI
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tool.</p>
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<p>(-) I'm not sure who is the target audience for the book. I mean, some things
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seem to be dumbed down to make easier for people who don't know the technology
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to understand what's going on, but... would someone that isn't related to the
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development of an application, that haven't seen or heard about databases and
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stuff worry about using AWS? 'Cause that's who the book seems focused on:
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people who just want something on the internet, but have no idea what they
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want or how to make it work.</p>
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<p>(As a side note, the WordPress install could be completely moved to an appendix
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and keep going with just the concepts.)</p>
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<li>(-) Some things doesn't seem related to AWS itself. For example, the second
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chapter is only about installing WordPress on a Linux server, and it could be
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done in any Linux install, even VirtualBox. This is kinda related to the
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previous point: If someone was attached the development of some web
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application, saying that you need a database and PHP and related libraries
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would be enough; but when you have to explain the whole install of
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WordPres... what's the focus?</li>
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<p>The small bits of concepts that are scattered around the images are somewhat
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interesting, but because they are so tied to the screenshots, a lot of
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information could be just missed. Or worse, turn people into simple clickers
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that don't understand why they are clicking this or that button, 'cause all they
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learnt was that they should click that button.</p>
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