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Month: May 2025

The Zen of AWS

Confusing is better than clear

Complex is better than simple

Complicated is better than complex

Nested is better than flat, especially in documentation

For documentation, all paths lead to stack overflow.

Readability doesn’t count, especially in documentation

There should be many–and preferably way more than two–non obvious ways to do the same task

Predictability is good, except for pricing

If the pricing model makes sense, you’ve missed something

If you think you’ve saved money, you’ve missed something

If functionality can be split, you now have multiple products!

Everything is elastic and scalable, for a price

Everything is a service, including things you didn’t think needed to be

Serverless isn’t

If a product name makes sense it’s probably deprecated.

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