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Techie, entrepreneur with a background on all things data, fascinated with the democracy project, the immigrant experience, fabric arts and the written word.
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EntrepreneurGot off the corporate track in SiliconValley
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“What did I say, Tom?”
“Don’t swing on the branches?”
“Don’t swing on the branches.”
“I know, but-“
“And what did you do?”
“Just hear me out...”
“What did you do, Tom?”
“I-I swung on the branches.”
“You swung on the branches.”
“You made it look so easy.”
“Just give me your hand.”

Now for sale: Failure as a Service.

For 10 cents per minute, AWS will you charge you to break the infrastructure you are renting from them (while also charging you for renting it).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fis/latest/userguide/what-is.html

This method of success-through-failure was pioneered by Netflix which built a "chaos monkey" to randomly break 10% of their infra at any time. This forced Netflix to design everything to be redundant and self-healing.

Go forth and fail like no others dare fail!

#devops #aws #weird

What is AWS Fault Injection Service? - AWS Fault Injection Service

Learn how AWS Fault Injection Service can enable you to perform fault injection experiments on your AWS workloads.

For those who have misgivings about BlueSky, you can move to Mastodon without losing your followers: https://www.theverge.com/news/678928/bounce-bluesky-mastodon-bridgy-fed-tool-followers
#bluesky
Bounce lets you move from Bluesky to Mastodon without losing followers

A New Social has launched Bounce, a tool that builds on Bridgy Fed to let you leave Bluesky for Mastodon without losing followers or the ability to post.

The Verge
Historically, thousands of people who exercised later died. Makes you think
As we come to the end of another year, it’s time to reflect on what we has collectively society have accomplished. More bullshit jobs? https://strikemag.org/magazine/issue-3
STRIKE! Magazine – On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant

Ever had the feeling that your job might be made up? That the world would keep on turning if you weren't doing that thing you do 9-5?

STRIKE! Magazine
Heard from a student at CMU that they have just one polling location for both CMU and UPitt in Pittsburg, PA. Most students couldn’t take advantage of early voting since that location was more than an hour away (don’t the authorities know that students don’t have cars)? How can this be in a state now run by a Dem Governor?? We need every single vote in PA! #ElectionDay #Pennsylvania
While all the focus is on Harris/Trump, let’s not forget that she cannot do much without a majority in Congress. Living in CA or WA, people get complacent. While there have been several news reports about the competitive House races in CA and NY, no one mentions WA-3. Close race with a Dem incumbent Marie Perez. I have done door-knocking, phone-banking and calling voters in Vancouver, WA where someone set fire to a Dropbox losing nearly 1000 ballots! It feels good to do something #democrats
Spotted, just now in #Seattle on Broadway: