i can choose to use none of apigateway but wiring up a domain to a lambda. i haven’t removed any of its other functionality, i’ve just chosen not to use it.

it will always be there, if i change my mind. one of the best reasons to use aws is that all those extra knobs are there, just waiting for you, if you need them.

trying to fiddle with all the knobs immediately is usually where the problems start, and the fun dies.

aws should be easy. maybe later, if it’s worth it, it can be hard.

unless they can tape over all the knobs they don’t need with little notes that say: peel off when your on the moon.

this is what i’ve done here.

i believe there should be fewer knobs.

i believe i shouldn’t have to remember which knobs to tape over every time i launch a new product.

i believe for almost every use case, a single subset of the knobs is sufficient.

i believe that when the day comes this is no longer true, it should be just as easy to peel off the tape.

aws is easy, and is fun, and (egress aside) is cheap thanks to scale-to-zero and spot.

i believe this more every day.