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Sounds About Right
Devops Docker Programming Cloud
2 days ago 65.2K views 0 shares
Sounds About Right
Nothing prepares you for the role of a mentally unstable character like being the person responsible for cutting cloud costs in production. That special kind of madness you develop after the 47th meeting where marketing asks "why can't we just use more servers?" while finance demands a 30% budget cut. By Friday afternoon, you're muttering "we live in a society" to your rubber duck while frantically trying to optimize Docker images that nobody wants to maintain.

The Distinguished Gentleman's Graphics Card
Hardware Gamedev
5 days ago 45.8K views 0 shares
The Distinguished Gentleman's Graphics Card
The eternal battle of GPU upgrades summed up in one frog. While everyone's losing their minds over the RTX 4090 and its ability to heat small villages, this distinguished gentleman is standing firm with his trusty 3070. It's the hardware equivalent of saying "my 2015 Toyota still gets me to work just fine" while your friends finance Tesla payments they can't afford. The 3070 remains a solid card that runs most games without setting your desk on fire or requiring a second mortgage. Revolutionary concept: using hardware until it actually stops meeting your needs!

Yes
Cloud Devops Hardware Kubernetes AWS
12 days ago 115.9K views 1 shares
Yes
Ah, the eternal DevOps dilemma! On the left, we have fancy cloud services with their shiny logos and enterprise pricing that makes your CFO cry. On the right, those dusty beige towers sitting under someone's desk that were "temporarily" put there in 2003. The beauty of those floor desktops? They're practically free if you raid the storage closet, they're ALL YOURS (no AWS outage notifications at 2am), and that sweet, sweet fan noise that sounds like a jet engine during compile time. Who needs expensive white noise machines? Sure, cloud gives you scalability, but nothing scales quite like the pride of telling management "we saved $10k this quarter by using Dave's old gaming PC as our build server."