Daddy What Did You Do In The Great AWS Outage Of 2025

So that's what's holding up the internet - a precarious tower of technology balanced on Linus Torvalds' shoulders with a random shark at the DNS level. Turns out those underwater cables aren't the most concerning part of our infrastructure. The real MVP is that shark guarding the DNS servers while C developers write dynamic arrays, Rust devs do their thing, and some web dev quietly sabotages himself in the corner. Meanwhile, unpaid open source developers and "whatever Microsoft is doing" somehow keep this Jenga tower from collapsing. Sleep well tonight knowing your entire digital existence depends on this absurd tech stack and one very dedicated fish.

The internet: a precarious tower of technology held together by duct tape, prayers, and that one guy who maintains a critical npm package from his basement. At the bottom, we've got ISP backbones with a "Do Not Unplug" sign that some intern is definitely eyeing right now. Above that, the Linux Foundation quietly supporting civilization while DNS pretends it's not having an existential crisis. Unpaid open-source developers are literally the load-bearing wall of this structure, while AWS and Cloudflare collect enterprise subscription fees for the privilege of not watching it all collapse. Meanwhile, V8 and WASM are somehow making "things happen in the web" while Microsoft flies around like an Angry Bird, contributing exactly what you'd expect: chaos. If you ever wondered why your app crashed, it's because someone bumped this technological Jenga tower.

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Finally found where AWS keeps all my data! Turns out "cloud storage" is just cotton balls on shelves. No wonder my S3 costs keep piling up - they're buying premium cotton. Bet they charge extra for the "fluffy tier" too. Next time sales promises "elastic cloud scaling," I'm just going to point to this closet and ask which shelf they plan to use.

Ah, the modern tech job posting—where companies want a single developer with the skills of seventeen specialists working for the price of one junior. The guy nails it perfectly. When recruiters list every technology under the sun—from three programming languages to multiple frameworks, databases, cloud services, DevOps tools, and system administration—they're basically asking for a unicorn who can replace their entire engineering team. After 15 years in the industry, I've seen job descriptions evolve from "Java developer" to "technical demigod who can single-handedly build, deploy, and maintain the entire digital infrastructure of a Fortune 500 company while also making coffee." And the best part? They'll still call it "entry-level" and offer you exposure instead of a proper salary.

The SRE just found the ultimate loophole to the genie's billion-dollar challenge, and the genie immediately shut that down faster than you can say "unexpected billing alert." Anyone who's ever deployed anything on AWS knows that mysterious $100M bill is just a few forgotten EC2 instances away. One day you're launching a "small test environment," the next day you're explaining to your CEO why your startup needs another funding round just to pay this month's cloud bill. Even supernatural beings with infinite cosmic power know better than to mess with AWS pricing. The fourth rule? "No cloud services that scale automatically and drain your life savings while you sleep."