Ben Halpern

Posted on Apr 18, 2022

What cloud services do you use? (Personal and team)

#discuss #github

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Joe Mainwaring • Apr 18 '22 • Edited

I'm probably forgetting some, but this is a fairly comprehensive list of the cloud services I use for work:

GCP: This is primary cloud provider and we try to stay in-cloud as much as possible.
AWS: Legacy services that weren't worth the hassle porting to GCP, like s3. Also, we just acquired a company who's product is fully rooted in AWS, so our footprint has expanded.
MongoDB: MongoDB drives two of the applications that make up our platform.
MailChimp: Transactional emails (technically this is Mandrill but they dropped the branding?)
Confluent: Data pipelines within the application
Hevo: Data pipelines from third-party sources into our BigQuery data warehouse
Pusher: Real-time notification events for one of our legacy applications
New Relic: Performance Monitoring
DataDog: Synthetic Tests
Sentry: Front end monitoring
Elastic: For our application's activity feed
Lokalise: Automated translations using CI/CD
BrickFTP/Files.com: SFTP option for our customers to transmit HRIS files for processing
Cloudinary: Image transformations
Pager Duty: MTTR tool
Velocity Code Climate: A metrics tool which allows you to measure the performance of your engineers. I know that might sound controversial to some, I would encourage you to read the book Accelerate to understand the value such a tool provides.
Atlassian JIRA/confluence: Project Management
Github: Source Control
Okta: Single-Sign On
CircleCI: Continuous Integration & Delivery. Check out my post A Litmus Test for CircleCI to understand why we picked Circle
FreshDesk: Customer-facing support tools
Slack: Asynchronous Comms
Zoom: Synchronous comms
GSuite: Email
Coder: It's Github Codespaces, but for the enterprise
Databricks: Data analytics
GRS: A Third-party rewards fulfillment system with country-specific catalogs
Catalog API: Another rewards fulfillment service, better suited for domestic (US) audiences
Lacework: Intrusion Detection and compliance monitoring
Apptio: BI tool for monitoring your cloud spend

Personally, some services I use in the context of software development:

Cloudflare: DNS
Belena.io: IoT management & deployment of containers
Digital Ocean
Heroku
Twilio: SMS messaging
Stripe: Payments

Ben Sinclair • Apr 18 '22

At work, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, AWS, Acquia, Cloudflare, Mailchimp, and a zillion other things depending on the client - though we're moving to Microsoft-everything at some point because Parent Company Reasons.

Personally, I use Bitbucket/Github for VCS, Google Drive and Dropbox for backups (via Duplicati). That's about it. If I want the world to see a pet project I put it on my creaking, overloaded VPS.

Posandu • Apr 18 '22

Heroku
Firebase (Favorite)
Supabase
Backblaze

Ashwin Hariharan • Apr 18 '22 • Edited

GitHub for open source code
Gitlab for some private personal projects, and also the code + content of my tech blog
Netlify for hosting my tech blog
Heroku for deploying few projects/proof-of-concepts from work and for my tech tutorials
Namecheap for domains and an official mailbox
Several AWS services for stuff at work (S3 for large media storage, OpenSearch for Search services, Lambda for serverless functions, etc)

Liviu Lupei • Apr 19 '22

We're still using Namecheap as a domain provider.
And we also used them as an official mailbox, but it was a bad experience.

Their Private Email interface was down 5% of the time, with long maintenance windows.
And their IP Reputation was bad as well, a lot of the emails we sent ended up being in Spam folders because of that.
We switched to Google Apps for email and it was an instant boost.

I hope they made some improvements since then.

Ashwin Hariharan • Apr 19 '22

Woah, didn't realize that! I probably should go do some reading on this, thanks for letting me know!

Will Holmes • Apr 19 '22

Personally:

Vercel: NextJs hosting
PlanetScale: Serverless MySQL databases
Netlify: Small react app hosting
AWS: Has the easiest to access / manage free tier of all providers imo.
MongoDbAtlas: Cluster is cool, but limited.

Muhammad Uzair • Apr 18 '22

AWS (S3, EC2)
Firebase (push notifications)

Liviu Lupei • Apr 19 '22

Found the mobile developer.

Muhammad Uzair • Apr 19 '22

Nope, I am Backend developer.

Conner Ow • Apr 18 '22 • Edited

The main cloud service I use daily for playing around is Replit. Otherwise, I use vercel for hosting sites, cloudflare for domain management, and MongoDB for databases.

AWS has traumatized me due to the way their customer service was and how much they charged for hosting a few python websites (Almost $400 a month!)

Liviu Lupei • Apr 19 '22

I've been using AWS since 2014.

How did they charge you $400 for hosting a few websites?
What services did you use?
An EC2 instance with 2 GB costs less than $0.02 per hour, which translates into less than $14 per month.

I never contacted their Support for technical questions or issues, since their documentation covered everything I needed.