AWS User Learns IBM Cloud

Long time AWS user learns IBM Cloud for the first time. Share in my pain when I get stuck, and in my triumph when I figure things out.

We look at IBM Cloud's direct competitors to AWS Lambda and DynamoDB - IBM Functions and IBM Cloudant. We look at how they are similar and different from their AWS counterparts, in terms of cost, setup, ease of use and performance. We also take a quick glance at other IBM Cloud services to see if there is are equivalents of many of the more popular AWS services.

00:00 - 00:54 Introduction
00:54 - 02:05 Service Parity
02:05 - 03:08 Finding equivalents to Lambda and DynamoDB
03:08 - 05:25 Cloudant setup
05:25 - 08:37 Working with Cloudant using Python
08:37 - 11:37 IBM Cloud Functions
11:37 - 12:59 Authorizing a Cloud Function for a Cloudant database
12:59 - 13:30 Cloudant UI outage
13:30 - 14:00 Cat interruption
14:00 - 15:26 Cloudant authorization pt
15:26 - 17:09 Cloudant performance
17:09 - 19:24 Cloudant & Cloud Functions cost
19:24 - 21:43 Conclusion

[littledmandan]

This is interesting! Thanks for diving into something unknown and being willing to show the difficult stuff that most people leave out. Enjoying your videos!

[thedanyesful]

This is a great video. I like how you bring us along for the ride but at the same time you keep it pretty concise.

[MokhlesBarazi]

I just want to say a big THANK YOU for this video. I was preparing for a 3rd interview and was asked a question that I was able to answer it from the notes I gathered from this video - with the performance examples you mentioned. And I made it in at the end. I mentioned this video at the end about my preparation for this interview. Grateful for the help 🙏

[lukecastellan]

Very interesting video!
I really hope it gets more attention

[happosade]

I find your lack of understanding on what the bread the system wants from me -feeling really relatable. I'm working with AWS, but with some less-hyped services what they offer and the documentation there feels quite assuming rather often. And when I don't follow the assumptions exactly, I feel totally lost.

I think this shows how important good documentation is in general. I wouldn't hold it against IBM that they do things differently and the logic is different, but when the docs has outdated examples that are quite impossible to follow, there's nothing to defend. It just slows the adaptation, even if the product would be 100x better, if nobody can understand how to use it by themselves, they're not getting customers. Rather few of us wants to feel stupid when we're building something :D

[everyhandletaken]

Watching you struggle was like looking in the mirror for me, pretty much how I spend every day lol
IBM have to gain at least 1 point for their 'Carbon' UI design, which is 100x more appealing than AWS.
They clearly suffer the same issue as AWS.. their documentation is equally terrible & I think it is more so a disgrace on the AWS side, purely for the fact it is orders of magnitude more popular than IBM Cloud.

Loved this video & hope to see more of these on the channel :)

[primavera]

Interesting, I appreciate the courage you displayed discovering IBM raw from scratch.
I really wished you showed us the code login you use to benchmark the dababse performance

[infinitebirch]

I was trying my best to learn about IBM's serverless capabilities and how it compares to AWS, it took about 30 minutes to find this video which was the most helpful thing so far. I'd be super curious if you continued your investigation into replacements for other features like VPC, cloud formation, codedeploy, codecommit, and s3. I'd also be curious if you do find a truly cheaper solution even if the features are more limited.

[wackytheshaggy]

Who at IBM writes the note that the library is depreciated but doesn’t fix the tutorial??

To be honest, it’s better than azure, where they don’t tell you the documentation is outdated.

What a pile of 💩