your comment is sort of selfish because you don't seem to understand a good portion of the JS ecosystem is based on top of the libraries the author has touched. welcome to the real world

I know much of the JS ecosystem sucks. Don't blame me for industry leaders brainwashing and coercing us into using these horrible frameworks and libraries... And then making it into a mono-culture which shuns all alternatives.

You don't have to use them; you can find a different job at a smaller company. There are still companies doing it right and there are still good, lightweight tools out there; they're just hard to find.

Could any of you clarify to me why do we have "Edge" domain rather than a specific region?

Yeah, you can select "edge" for some resources (API Gateway and Lambda are two that come to mind) which just means it's located in all regions plus some additional "edge" infrastructure that isn't available as a region. AWS puts some restrictions on edge resources since there isn't enough capacity or full-region functionality.

Usually you pick this for stuff that is CDN oriented and front a regional service with that.

Exactly, why did it failed yesterday then? If supposedly just us-west-2 was down :(

My guess is if you saw an outage with edge, it was because you were being routed by us-west-2

People, I've just started setting up API GW and deploying my code to another region. Rest assured the outage will normalize itself before I finish migrating. ETA: 15min-ish

Did I say 15 minutes? Actually, it depends.

The first rule of publishing ETAs for updates is to triple the estimate. Be the hero that finishes before the published time vs finishing after! The second rule of ETAs is don't specifiy a time.

I'm still amazed at the number of cults that place a specific date on the return of the savior, and even more by the people that go along with the rescheduling. The fact that I'm still waiting in Dallas for JFK's return is irritating. /s

shouts to whoever is out there rotating keys since the announcement of this incident.

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React + ES6 imports = wow + peace I got my first bucks as a developer more than 10 years ago. Only recently I felt like I have an actual good code structure. Having components and managing dependencies with es6 imports is truly awesome.

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Considering the first released apps I don't agree the gap thing:

Duolingo - a fun and free way to learn a new language before your next trip Evernote - write, collect and find what matters to you, with a full-size keyboard and touchscreen Sight Words - a delightful way for you to help improve your child's reading skills Vine - create short, beautiful, looping videos in a simple and fun way

Could you elaborate? The gap exists - that's why Chrome Apps (and Firefox OS apps for that matter) are provided with additional API to bridge the gap. Google and Mozilla are working on standardizing these APIs but until then, Chrome Apps/Firefox OS apps should be an active effort. In that context, I don't understand the Android support in Chrome OS.

Did this (using jquery):

var loadingLayer = { step: 0, add: function(){ this.step += 1; //didn't know how to call checkState() automatically after any other call this.checkState(); }, remove: function(){ this.step -= 1; this.step < 0 && (this.step=0); this.checkState(); }, clear: function(){ this.step = 0; this.checkState(); }, checkState: function(){ if (this.step === 0){ $("body").removeClass("loading"); } else { $("body").addClass("loading"); } } }; $(document).ajaxStart( function(){ loadingLayer.add(); }); $(document).ajaxComplete(function(){ loadingLayer.remove(); });

I know the JS is uggly but i'm not an js expert (it works).

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/NXqe5/