Jungle Ops: The AWS Survival Challenge

Content rAskReddit Posted by uworldtraveler100 10h What technology are you shocked has not advanced yet? 4 26.8k J 14.6k Share Award BEST COMMENTS RegulatoryCapture 4h 1 Award The legal code. Computer programmers have come up with beautiful collab- orative change tracking systems (like git) that let you easily make changes to a huge base of code, track who changed what, submit and resolve conflicting versions of updates, etc. But when we pass a new bill that replaces or modifies an old law, it is always some 300 page document with pages of "Subsection F Paragraph 3 will be modified to read 'XYZ' Why not put the laws into a git repository and make it easy for bills to just modify the existing history to say what you want it to say? And why not have the transparency to see exactly what changes and WHO implemented that change? Want to slip some pork for your district into an unrelated bill? Well, that edit is going to have your name on it. Of course it will never happen. Reply 928 J imtn 1h Who the heck wrote this ridiculous bill? git blame Ah, I did. 217

OH. MY. GOD. Amazon just created the world's most expensive hockey stick graph! 📈 Who knew firing 30,000 employees would result in catastrophic AWS outages?! SHOCKING! It's like they fired all the people who knew where the "keep servers running" button was! 🔥 The cloud is literally on fire, darling! Half the internet is probably screaming while DevOps teams worldwide are having simultaneous heart attacks. This is what happens when executives think "redundancy" means "extra people" instead of "systems that keep your trillion-dollar company from imploding." The irony is just *chef's kiss*!

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The hero we didn't know we needed! While AWS is having a major outage and CTOs everywhere are sweating bullets, this clever dev is sitting pretty with their workloads in US-East-2. It's that galaxy brain moment when your paranoia about putting all your eggs in one availability zone finally pays off. Multi-region deployment strategy for the win! Everyone else is frantically updating their status page while you're just sipping coffee and watching your metrics stay gloriously flat.

The classic tech startup founder transformation arc, but make it AI. You start with that ambitious gleam in your eye thinking you're about to revolutionize machine learning. Then you dump your entire Series A funding into GPUs and cloud infrastructure because "we need compute power!" Next thing you know, you've automated every single position in your company including your own, because efficiency, right? The punchline? Your AI-powered product is so expensive to run that your target market can't even afford the subscription fees. Turns out training models on petabytes of data and running inference at scale costs slightly more than a Netflix subscription. Who knew that burning through millions in compute costs would make your pricing model look like a luxury yacht rental? The clown makeup progression perfectly captures the descent from "visionary entrepreneur" to "why is my AWS bill six figures this month?" The real kicker is realizing you've essentially built a very expensive solution looking for a problem that can actually pay for it.

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