Xkcd-style Memes

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The Hidden Face Of Digital Infrastructure

The Hidden Face Of Digital Infrastructure
Ah yes, the harsh truth about our digital world - built and maintained by a very specific demographic. The comic suggests that behind all our fancy cloud infrastructure and enterprise systems are just stereotypical Linux enthusiasts with questionable fashion choices and anime avatars. The ">ᴗ

The AI Slingshot Revolution

The AI Slingshot Revolution
Behold the mighty tower of "modern digital infrastructure" - a precarious stack of random components that somehow powers the entire internet. Meanwhile, AI is just a slingshot with some angry birds ready to topple the whole damn thing. Ten years of meticulously building cloud architecture, and some intern with a ChatGPT prompt is about to make it all irrelevant. The future of tech, brought to you by the same engineering principles as a game of Jenga.

House Of Cards: Modern Digital Infrastructure

House Of Cards: Modern Digital Infrastructure
The billion-dollar tech industry vs. that one legacy system running on a Raspberry Pi in someone's basement. Our entire digital civilization is just elaborate block stacking with extra steps! Meanwhile, some senior engineer's weekend project from 2012 is silently keeping half the internet functioning. The duality of infrastructure: complex architectural masterpieces requiring teams of DevOps engineers alongside that janky script Dave wrote before he retired that nobody dares to touch.