AWS Regions: Choose Your Disaster Dragon

The existential crisis hits hard when junior devs finally grasp that their precious code is just a tiny speck in an endless Russian doll of virtualization. Their Java app isn't running on a "computer" – it's running on a Java Virtual Machine, which is running on a VM, which is running on a hypervisor, which is part of a Virtual Private Cloud... which is probably running in some AWS data center that might not even physically exist for all we know. Seven years into my career and I'm still not convinced my code isn't just running in a simulation inside another developer's fever dream. The turtles really do go all the way down.

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Content Glenn F. Henriksen henriksen When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public. ProgrammerHumor.

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Content What are the 7 deadly sins of programming? John Purcell, Creator of CaveOfProgramming.com Updated Dec 2, 2017 Upvoted by Les Howie, Software professional for 40 years. and Hasib Al Muhaimin, IOl participant '13, '14, '15, ACM-ICPC World Finalist 2016 Author has 5.9k answers and 9.3m answer views 1. Using spaces instead of tabs. You should always, always use tabs, not spaces. 2. Using tabs instead of spaces. You should always, always use spaces, not tabs. 3. Not using auto-formatting. Forget all that tabsspaces rubbish, what's wrong with you - auto-format your code and then people won't have to look at vour weird ideas about brackets and spaces. 4. Using IDEs, which have features such as auto-formatting and nicely- coloured buttons. All code should be written in vi or Emacs, thus ensuring the purity of the programming experience. 5. Not using IDEs. No-one wants to pay for all the time it's going to take you to type things that you could have done at the click of a button, or scroll up and down using some ridiculous key combination invoked using LISP. 6. Failing to learn C and C. It's really important to learn the two absolute essential languages. You think Java is just as good? Fine, write me a real- time control system for racing cars in Java and I'll believe you. 7. Learning C or C when you could be using something modern like Java instead. Admit it - all your schedules involving C or C overrun by five years. And even then the software turns out to have critical flaws that Java would not even have allowed you to create. 8. Overrunning the end of an array. 356.1k views View 11.9k Upvoters View Sharers

Ah, the classic cloud architect's lament. AWS promised us the holy grail of scalability, yet somehow became our new single point of failure. Nothing says "I've made a terrible mistake" quite like watching your entire infrastructure collapse because us-east-1 decided to take a coffee break. The irony burns hotter than Mustafar's lava. We migrated to the cloud to avoid downtime, only to discover we've just outsourced our problems to Jeff Bezos. Multi-region deployment? That was apparently on the roadmap right after "figure out how to decipher our own AWS bill."