Day: March 20, 2020, 9:43 AM

Playing Out Now

Chill Regular-ass Post

This was always the very predictable end state of the liberal cry for censoring everything. They were baited with the promise of not making transgender people feel bad and with the specter of fake Nazis, but of course all along the real agenda was to prevent dissent from “authority.” And “authority” here means the correct neoliberal-state narrative.

And I say “very predictable” because I fucking predicted it and how it would happen. It’s playing out about how I thought it would, which is nothing remarkable because it was in fact very easy to anticipate.

Not Speedy

Chill Uncategorized

This gives you some idea how absurdly slow microservices are.

So, we are around ~30 developers who maintain ~5 micro-services which run on ~1000 EC2 instances that serve around 100k requests/minute1.

That’s around a thousand virtual machines to handle 1,666 requests per second. By contrast, at my previous employer we had single machines that could handle 10,000 requests per second, or 600,000 requests per minute. Sure, those were extremely beefy machines with 6TB of memory (yeah, you read that right), but there’s no way they cost even 1/10 as much as running 1,000 EC2 instances. And each machine handled roughly six times the number of requests with far less complexity.

The post itself is about “observability.” Observability is what’s required when you’ve built a system so complex that you can’t actually troubleshoot it. It’s a way of saying, “We don’t know what the fuck is going on or why something breaks, so we have to watch it with also-expensive and very slow tools and then guess or just change things nearly-randomly and see what happens.”

Microservices aren’t all bad. But the above is what you get when you turn developers loose on infrastructure. Since they don’t understand it or why/how it works, extreme weirdness like this occurs.

Pert Plus

Chill Uncategorized

That was indeed an amazing sight to see. Mass “expert” betrayal in a very obvious and blatant way. Of course there will be no consequences to the actual purveyors of this nonsense, even though they should never work in their chosen field again. They are likely to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions yet will retain their jobs and worthless credentials and reputations.

Turns Out It Was Not

Chill Regular-ass Post

We can use this opportunity to point out that the government can do all these things and more at a moment’s notice. They tried to convince us that they simply couldn’t. They lied.

Yeah, the centrist cry of “Everything is impossible” looks awfully vieillot now, does it not? Of course anyone with half a brain knew that their mantra of mediocrity was spurious from the start — but all too many people lacking that 50% of gray matter bought the con and then derided anyone who pointed out that it was in fact all flimflam.