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@HeyChelseaTroy Try not to think how hard the feature will be to do, when designing it.

@VicVijayakumar As most tech,monoliths are totally a "right tool for the job" kind of thing. But what's interesting is to write a monolith well, you have to be very disciplined about the boundaries of your modules. Writing it lambda first had a great side effect: it enforced that discipline.

Someone is going to come here and say that serverless-first was a mistake & they should have started w/ a monolith. The team explained that they wanted each component to be independently scalable. The root issue was transporting data between components, not it being serverless.

In case you missed it- The Prime Video team originally built a Video Quality Analysis service very quickly with Lambda + Step Functions. They soon realized that passing data between distributed components was expensive. So they refactored their code to run as a single service.

@VicVijayakumar I think even motorcycles are better for the environment, relatively speaking. Random source off the internet downtoearth.org.in/news/twostroke…

@eurasian It is basically a little motorcycle you push around, but you're standing behind the exhaust the whole time.

I’ve owned a gas powered lawn mower since 2008 which I take very good care of, and it still works. But it always left me and the yard smelling like gas, and needing a shower after I used it. Bought an electric mower this morning. Wow, just why did I wait so long.

@VicVijayakumar Also those tiny two stroke engines produce an ALARMING amount of pollution, since they never had the sort of environmental controls that say, cars have had

I hate that I replaced a mower which still works. I replaced a mower I can take apart and maintain with one that’s completely magical and has expensive electronic parts. But…I didn’t inhale a crap ton of gas fumes for 30 mins mowing the lawn today. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Annunciation of Mary, and a whole lotta pagans, Uffizi Gallery theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

Callbacks, UNESCO, infidelity, and sandwiches theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

Florence walking tour. The Medicis, they were like, rich theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

Bullet trains,and entirely too many stairs theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

The coolness of Italians, ancient trolling, and the Colloseum theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

Natural history museum, and posh running shoes theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

Maritime Museum, and on being a flat theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

The mousetrap theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

A story of data plans theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

First full day in London BLARG post theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

First blog post, traveling to London theniteowl.blogspot.com/2023/03/europe…

@Reives_Freebird hullo! Do you sell sheet music for your compositions from Imposter Factory? Thanks!

Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.) It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public. 🧵

@b0rk Sure but where would you get a copy of Dreamweaver these days

the magic of backwards compatibility is that if you make a website exactly the same way someone would have in 2005, it will still work just fine (though I would use flexbox, flexbox is way easier than whatever we had in 2005)

I'm extremely on team "you do not have to" (as someone who only makes tiny websites, mostly by myself)

@techgirl1908 Or just really really like Christmas

I automatically assume my coworkers who have their Christmas trees up in the background of our video calls fully have their lives together. Must be nice.