You always braise rodent knees. Did Arby’s parents teach them nothing!

Funny how this information about massive operational cost savings “leaked” just hours after all internet facing companies and US congress started questioning our reliance on AWS in a way that could affect Amazon’s stock price.

Once upon a time they insisted that Amazon had independent decision making on their providers when they were needing new infrastructure and they “always decided that AWS suited them best.”

Shockingly (/s), they stopped making that claim right about the same time they started admitting that their biggest users are all under Private Pricing Agreements.

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.

“That’s a problem for future me, that guy’s a jerk anyway.”

the next morning: “Past me is an asshole.”

Wait, you think governments propping up digital ID companies that are built purely for profit and have less understanding of cybersecurity than I do about day-to-day life on Pluto is a bad thing?

I still think the web took a wrong turn when NCSA Mosaic first stated supporting inline images.

We only use Amazon when its the only fulfillment option available. What I’ve noticed about amazon over the last 5+ years is that it feels like cable/broadcast TV ads do now.

In the rare case I end up watching TV with ads I find them so obnoxious and/or off-putting that I can’t believe they actually sell anything. If anything they put me off the product. And that’s how Amazon feels too.