Sam Bashton

I've moved to @bashtoni@mastodon.social

I hope Elon buys Facebook next

Before everyone starts dunking on this guy, it's worth pointing out that there's a whole 'change management' industry based on this false premise.

Do you think Tesla employees encouraged Elon to buy Twitter so they could get on with work without his constant stream of 'suggestions'?

The Twitter acquisition will go down in the history books.

@QuinnyPig If I was to be very charitable to AWS, I would point out that the usage characteristics for an EBS volume attached to EC2 vs RDS are probably not the same. Because RDS supports storage auto scaling, and because it's all database workloads, I'd expect higher IO per GB allocated.

Okay, so there's still an economic win if you're having to overprovision on gp3 to get the performance you want, but it's wild to me that RDS's version of gp3 has significantly different economics than EC2's version of gp3. This is *bizarre*.

Big deal here: gp3 finally comes to RDS in all @awscloud regions. It starts off as an across the board 20% discount. Use this please. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

@CTOAdvisor @TheRegister They've always been server huggers.

Is it me or has @theregister soured on public cloud? news.google.com/articles/CAIiE…

It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity

People quitting Twitter because they're mad Elon bought it are themselves doing what he'd do only in their most paranoid nightmares: purging Twitter of people who disagree with him.

@latikambourke @RishiSunak @HackneyAbbott @MehreenFaruqi You have to love the irony that the "gerrem out!" racist Brexit supporters set off a sequence of events that led to an ethnic minority Prime Minister.

Why is the UK achieving what Australia can only dream of? I look at the efforts the Tories took to get @RishiSunak into Parlt., ask @HackneyAbbott why UK Labour started out better but dropped the ball & if @MehreenFaruqi will ever see this in Australia. latika.me/RishiDiversity

I've been using Twitter for a long time apparently.

@steven_bryen Enterprise summit? Still use the free umbrella they gave out.

Found a pic of me presenting on AWS 8yrs ago today. They’ve since added: +17 Regions +61 Availability Zones +361 Edge locations What a ride it was being on the inside as AWS grew so fast 🚀 Now I get to see it from the customer side. Still just as excited for what’s next!

Follow people that make you think. My whole young life was about learning things, and then following things that differed from what I thought, and then changing accordingly as I learned more. Whether it is me or others (feel free to disagree), follow people that make you think.

@shashj Coincidence that cables off the coast of France were cut around the same time too? trust.zscaler.com/zscloud.net/po…

My interview with Liz Truss

Looking forward to my reincarnation as a Guide Dog.

@kelseyhightower You mean like Bigtable? Absolutely, if I was building on Google Cloud. If I was building on AWS DynamoDB would be my default.