re:Invent starts tomorrow, so let me round up the biggest #serverless related announcements from the last 2 weeks (I know, crazy!) and share a few thoughts on what they mean for you.
Mega 🧵If this gets 168 retweets then I'll add another batch!
#serverless#aws#reinvent
X: in light of last week's #AWS outage, should I make my app multi-region?
me: it depends.
X: on what?
me: how much did the outage cost you in lost sales, reputation cost, etc.? And how much are you willing to invest in improving your uptime in case of another region-wide outage?
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#Bitcoin is a distributed, append-only, eventually-consistent, content-addressable key-value store written to by public auction.
Multisig UTXOs are stateful synchronization primitives enabling "database transactions" for client applications at higher layers.
@realDonaldTrump Trump is right.
In fact, he should hold a huge rally. All his supporters should gather and huddle together in one arena.
I'm sure everyone would be just fine.
MEGATHREAD TIME: In 40 tweets I will describe 40 powerful concepts for understanding the world. Some are complex so forgive me for oversimplifying, but the main purpose is to incite curiosity. Okay, here we go:
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Awareness of the limitations of cognition (thinking) requires a proficiency in metacognition (thinking about thinking). In other words, being stupid makes you too stupid to realize how stupid you are.
Thank you @ossia for writing this helpful article.
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