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title = "Learn Amazon Web Services In A Month Of Lunches" |
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date = 2020-12-31 |
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tags = ["books", "reviews", "aws", "it", "2020 challenge"] |
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34013923-learn-amazon-web-services-in-a-month-of-lunches): |
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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. |
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Some points here: |
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* (-) 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still up to date -- some references are really out of date already, like |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. |
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* (-) 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. |
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* (-) 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. |
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(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.) |
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* (-) 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? |
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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. |
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