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I Have Won But At What Cost
AI AWS Backend Cloud
2 days ago 161.7K views 0 shares
I Have Won But At What Cost
Your AI model just dominated the leaderboards, crushing GPT-5 and Claude into oblivion. Marketing is popping champagne, the dev team is celebrating... and then the CFO opens their email. That AWS bill just landed like a meteor strike on the company's bank account. Turns out training your LLM on 47 trillion tokens using every GPU cluster in three availability zones costs slightly more than a coffee run. The AI team is celebrating their technical masterpiece while the CFO is having a spiritual crisis, calculating how many decades of revenue it'll take to break even. Sure, you're #1 on the leaderboard, but at what cost? Literally. The answer is in six figures. Per day. Welcome to the AI gold rush where the real winner is Jeff Bezos.

Sabrina Carpenter
AWS Programming Debugging Backend Cloud
5 days ago 171.2K views 0 shares
Sabrina Carpenter
So someone decided to create an AWS Lambda that calls itself recursively without a timeout limit. That's not a bug, that's a financial suicide note. Lambda functions have a 15-minute max execution timeout for a reason—to protect you from yourself. But forget to set it? Congrats, you just created an infinite loop that'll keep spawning new instances until your AWS bill looks like a phone number. The best part? AWS won't stop you. They'll just keep charging while your function enthusiastically calls itself into oblivion like an ouroboros made of JSON and regret.

Snap Back To Reality
C++ AI AWS Programming Debugging
7 days ago 203.6K views 0 shares
Snap Back To Reality
Nothing ruins a developer's flow state faster than a senior dev gatekeeping what "real engineering" looks like. Junior was vibing with his lo-fi beats and cute VS Code theme, probably knocking out features left and right. Then comes the senior with a memory leak in some ancient C++ module nobody's touched since the Bush administration, demanding manual tracing without AI tools because apparently suffering builds character. Six hours of staring at a black screen while senior takes a 2-hour tea break? That's not mentorship, that's hazing. The username "@forgot_to_kill_ec2" is just *chef's kiss* – nothing says "us-east-1 Survivor" quite like forgetting to terminate instances and watching your AWS bill skyrocket. Welcome to the real world indeed, where your zen coding session gets replaced by pointer arithmetic nightmares and existential dread.

Cloud Made Me Broke
AWS Devops Backend Cloud
9 days ago 201.9K views 0 shares
Cloud Made Me Broke
The fastest way to financial ruin isn't Vegas or crypto—it's forgetting to shut down that t2.micro you spun up "just for testing" six months ago. AWS billing doesn't care about your feelings or your bank account. That $0.0116/hour seems harmless until you realize it's been running 24/7 racking up charges like a taxi meter on a cross-country road trip. Pro tip: Set up billing alarms before you start clicking "Launch Instance" like you're playing Minecraft in creative mode. Your future self will thank you when you're not eating ramen for the next three months.

Cloud Native
Cloud Networking Devops AWS Azure
10 days ago 214.1K views 1 shares
Cloud Native
CTO proudly announces they've migrated 95% of their infrastructure to the cloud, throwing around buzzwords like "resilient," "scalable," and "modern" to a room full of impressed stakeholders. Then someone asks the uncomfortable question: "Doesn't that mean we're entirely dependent on—" but gets cut off by the true believer shouting about best practices and industry standards. Nothing can go wrong when you follow the herd, right? Cut to: Cloudflare goes down and the entire internet breaks. Major outage. Good luck! Boss nervously asks how much of their infrastructure is affected. The answer? That 95% they were bragging about. But don't worry! The good news is they're only down when everyone else is down too. Misery loves company, and so does vendor lock-in. Who needs redundancy across multiple providers when you can just... hope really hard that AWS/Azure/GCP stays up? Turns out "cloud-native" sometimes just means "native to someone else's problems."

Cloud Made Me Broke
AWS Devops Backend Cloud
11 days ago 243.7K views 1 shares
Cloud Made Me Broke
Every developer's worst nightmare: forgetting to terminate that EC2 instance you spun up "just for testing." You think you're being smart using cloud infrastructure, then AWS sends you a bill that looks like a phone number from a different country. The beauty of cloud computing is you only pay for what you use. The horror of cloud computing is you pay for everything you use—including that t2.micro instance that's been idling for 6 months straight because you forgot it existed. Pro tip: Set up billing alerts. Your bank account will thank you. Or better yet, use the free tier and actually read what "free" means before you accidentally provision a fleet of GPU instances.

AWS Certified ≠ Actually Knows DevOps?
AWS Devops Kubernetes Cloud
16 days ago 347.0K views 0 shares
AWS Certified ≠ Actually Knows DevOps?
The eternal truth bomb: certifications are basically the participation trophies of the tech world. You've got the AWS certified guy sitting there reading an actual book (probably "Kubernetes in Action" or some O'Reilly tome), absorbing knowledge like a sponge, while the person with "expertise in devops and cloud technology" is just doom-scrolling on their phone in the shadows. The spotlight of higher salary shines exclusively on the certification holder, not because they necessarily know more, but because HR departments and recruiters can't resist that sweet, sweet AWS Solutions Architect badge on a resume. Meanwhile, the person who actually spent years troubleshooting production incidents at 3 AM, writing Terraform configs, and understanding the why behind infrastructure decisions gets overlooked. Classic case of "paper credentials > actual battle scars" in the hiring process. The certification industrial complex strikes again!

Nothing Better Than Coding During Christmas 🎄
Security Devops Git AWS Programming
22 days ago 219.5K views 0 shares
Nothing Better Than Coding During Christmas 🎄
Family gathering downstairs? Nah. Turkey dinner? Pass. Opening presents? Maybe later. But committing your AWS credentials and database passwords to a public repo in a blurry .env file while sitting alone with your laptop? Now that's the holiday spirit. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" quite like exposing your entire infrastructure to the internet. The tree is decorated, the lights are twinkling, and your BETTER_AUTH_SECRET is about to become everyone's secret. At least the photo is blurry enough that we can only read like 80% of those credentials. Security through jpeg compression—a strategy as old as time. Pro tip: Next year, maybe add .env to your .gitignore before you add it to your Christmas card.

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I Lost Count At This Point
Cloud Networking Devops Gamedev AWS
22 days ago 275.4K views 0 shares
I Lost Count At This Point
Gaming platforms and their outages visualized as flatline heartbeat monitors. Every single service showing that familiar spike pattern—the digital equivalent of "not again." From ARC Raiders to VRChat, it's like they're all competing for who can go down more creatively. AWS is there too, naturally, because when AWS sneezes, half the internet catches a cold. The real joke is calling these "outages" when they're basically scheduled features at this point. Your multiplayer plans? The servers had other ideas.

When You're Divorced From Reality
AI AWS Programming Backend Cloud
26 days ago 290.9K views 0 shares
When You're Divorced From Reality
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.

Self Documenting Open Source Code Be Like
Devops AWS Programming Cloud
1 month ago 257.1K views 0 shares
Self Documenting Open Source Code Be Like
Nothing screams "self-documenting" quite like a variable named var.putin_khuylo in your Terraform AWS module. Because when future developers are debugging your infrastructure at 3 AM, what they really need is a geopolitical statement embedded in their boolean logic. The commit message "fix: Always pull a value from SSM data source since a computer" is chef's kiss—incomplete sentence and all. Really helps clarify what's happening in those 833 lines of code. And that overlay text trying to explain the variable? "It basically means value of Putin is d*ckhead variable is true." Thanks, I definitely couldn't have figured that out from the variable name itself. Documentation? Who needs it when you can just name your variables after your political opinions and call it a day. The code is self-documenting, just not in the way anyone expected.

Not A Big Deal, Just A Company That Runs Half The Internet
AWS Devops Backend Cloud
1 month ago 254.3K views 0 shares
Not A Big Deal, Just A Company That Runs Half The Internet
Nothing says "enterprise reliability" quite like AWS failing to collect 82 cents and sending you a formal email about it. The irony here is chef's kiss—a company that hosts Netflix, NASA, and probably your startup's MVP can't process a payment under a dollar. Meanwhile, their URLs are still using template variables like ${AWSConsoleURL} in production emails, which is either a hilarious oversight or they're charging you extra to render those variables. The "Thank you for your continued interest in AWS" at the end really seals the deal. Yeah, not like I have a choice when you're literally running my entire infrastructure. It's giving "we know you can't leave us" energy. That 82 cents probably cost them more in engineering time to send this email than the actual charge was worth.