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cmaggiulli

64 karma · joined October 6, 2021

Software engineer and product manager from the Albany and Greater NYC area. Currently working for Columbia University
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cmaggiulli··on Why so many of us are casual spider-murderers
I don’t like killing living things. I also don’t like spiders
cmaggiulli··on Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
Writing Terraform scripts for AWS is 70% of my job. I do have some issues with the AWS provider in Terraform. Firstly, there are bugs. I ran into a bug a few days ago where the ARN attribute on a Lamba alias was resolving to the ARN of the Lambda, not it’s alias. I only figured it out because I found a GitHub Issue. Additionally, Hashicorp is often playing catch-up with Amazon. A few days ago AWS released a new instruction set architecture for Lambdas that would save my org a lot of money. However after I saw the announcement in AWS I see tons of different GitHub issues created to add this functionality. So I start editing my files based off the documentation only for that issue to be closed and pointed to a new one with different syntax. So I start working off the new syntax only for that issue to close and be pointed to a different one
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