Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

(mercek.dev)

20 points | by utibeumanah 3 hours ago

5 comments

  • ishanr 53 minutes ago
    I want to try this, but unfortunately there are just too many Electron applications on my computer now.

    I literally cannot run anymore without slowing everything down.

    This is something which other software makers need to start considering.

    There's actually limited RAM now on machines.

    Codex and Claude Desktop both are gigantic memory hogs. And they leak memory all the time, but they provide value which is quite high.

    Add in a couple of editors and the GitHub app. And then the actual browsers. And it actually stops me from downloading any more electron apps.

    Could this be made into a native application?

  • deepspace 44 minutes ago
    Neat, but this feels to me like buying a single-use kitchen gadget. Yes, the console does not have everything neatly together like this, but it can manage everything across all AWS services.

    Having to deal with a separate (electron) app for every AWS service would be a nightmare.

  • leetrout 59 minutes ago
    Thanks for sharing this and congrats on shipping! I, too, feel this pain.

    There was a similar undertaking to create something like k9s for ECS called E1S:

    https://github.com/keidarcy/e1s

    And I too intended to build one to server my specific ops needs and satisfy my taste for what information should be presented instead of how AWS organizes thing.

  • utibeumanah 3 hours ago
    The project is open source as well https://github.com/utibeabasi6/mercek
  • baskduf 14 minutes ago
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