wow the last AWS status update is incredible
meet James Hamilton
he’s Amazon’s literal very top engineer, the brain behind all the data centers
he lives in a custom yacht and does not give a fuck about any RTO
tuxedo sam
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- meet James Hamilton he’s Amazon’s literal very top engineer, the brain behind all the data centers he lives in a custom yacht and does not give a fuck about any RTO
- it turns out that "the code must work" is actually an insane requirement that most engineers are utterly incapable of meeting
- Replying to @skooookumtype of guy who wants to visit the Eagle’s Nest “bc it’s historically relevant”
- Replying to @kisstheblade_mom is even rooting for it to happen, you know she’s not gonna let that boy fumble
- for everyone trying to find the cheapest way into the 10 billion token club 10b tokens of batched gpt-5-nano cached input costs $25
- Replying to @kylensorensenthe TTL was 5 minutes and he solved it in 4
- one industry that knows how to build high-performance websites like nobody else they had it figured out 12 years ago: Redis as primary DB
- never ever participate in a picture where cropping u out makes the picture better
- Replying to @sailaunderscoreyou don’t need 200, 1g/lb is a myth, ~140-160 is plenty 10-20 from breakfast - if you don’t otherwise eat breakfast just do a Greek yogurt 80-100 from lunch + dinner meats 30 from a shake / fairlife 10-20 from snacks
- calling for a total and complete shutdown of Data Engineering until we can figure out what’s going on
- Replying to @futurenomicsthis is just obviously wrong and you should have better numeric intuition to recognize this the 300 waymos number is over a year old, more recent numbers suggest ~750 the 45k number is from 2016, uber + lyft both together, and all registered, not daily active
