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> How hard is it for 99% of the developers and technical leaders here to search your codebase for s3.amazonaws.com and update your links in the next 18 months?

I've got a number of hobby projects, some hosted on AWS, that I built ages ago. I have no idea how this change will effect those projects because ... I just frankly don't remember the codebases. I built them on a weekend, set them up, and now just use them.

It isn't the end of the world. But I'm not really excited about having to dig up old code, re-grok it, and fix anything that changes like these might break.

I suppose that's just the nature of a developer's life. But I think many of us long for a "write once, run forever" world. Horror stories about legacy software aside, it was nice to be able to write software for Windows and then have it work a decade later.



I suppose that's just the nature of a developer's life. But I think many of us long for a "write once, run forever" world.

Well, I think AWS developers are in the same boat right? Here we are.

An architectural decision that many years ago was the approach now needs to be rethought and updated.


How is that the same boat? Seems like the opposite.




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