The word "frictionless" is almost a cliche these day. Everything claims or wants to be frictionless. But what does frictionless truly looks like?
This is a collection of what I find is frictionless.
Gitpod is truly taking code editing to a frictionless level. Not IDE to install. There had been cloud IDE before but what attracted me was the badge.
Just a badge opens up the code and you can get started! Going to try it out more.
This post really resonate with me.
In the software industry, we collectively lose too much time and energy setting up many projects, on countless systems, often in half-broken ways.
Cloud and serverless is all the rage at the moment. There is no need to run server and the cloud can scale further than you will ever need.
But still, in order to take advantage of serverless cloud one still have to set them up. The process is not as straight forward as the marketing claims it to be.
Take load testing for example. Many tools mention the ability to use cloud to scale. But you still need to do the hard work of installing into cloud instances or container, configuring and running them.
Goad has an interesting approach. With just a CLI command, it does the heavy lifting of setting up AWS Lambda and all the associated infrastructure for the test behind the scence.
You just need your AWS keys and everything else are taken care of. Now this is frictionless!