State machines are awesome The main reason for using state machines is to help the design process. It is much easier to figure out all the possible edge conditions by drawing out the state machine on paper. This will make sure that your application will have less bugs and less undefined behavior. Also, it clearly defines which parts of the internal state of your object are exposed as external API. Moreover, state machines have decades of math and CS research behind them about analyzing them, simplifying them, and much more.
- Adding a
stateorstatusfield to your model is the most obvious sign of a state machine. - Boolean fields are usually also a good indication, like
published, orpaid. Also timestamps that can have aNULLvalue likepublished_atandpaid_atare a usable sign. - Finally, having records that are only valid for a given period in time, like
subscriptionswith a start and end date.
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I'm using CloudFormation and really enjoy it, but there are a couple of things which are lacking here. Auto scaling is a feature of AWS which enables you to configure and immediately provision and spin up new situations without any need of intervention AWS Tutorial . You need to do this by mounting thresholds and metrics to watch.
Maybe there are some reasons why they weren't implemented here, but.
So, the first thing is variables which can be populated during stack creation.
Here is an example of similar service from another cloud provider:
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I enjoy reading the various AWS blogs and staying up to date with new offerings and best practices. I typically go to the root of the blog site and check the "Latest Posts" section at the bottom. AWS Training
It looks like the "Latest Posts" section stopped updating about 2 weeks ago on April 20th. It would be very helpful if this could be fixed since this was very useful.
Excellent tutorials - very easy to understand with all the details. I hope you will continue to provide more such tutorials.
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Radhey
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I need something where I can run iis, sql server express and an application server to deploy a program. I thought I could use LightSail but I don't see an option to install the application server. Should I be using something else?
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Kevin
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However, when .ebignore is present in yout project directory, the EB CLI doesn't use git commands and semantics to create your source bundle. This means that EB CLI ignores files specified in .ebignore, and includes all other files. In particular, it includes uncommitted source files.
Anyways great write up, your efforts are much appreciated.
Grazie,
Radhey