Vivek L

Building something new at @alcionhq. Formerly engineer at @pulumicorp. Cloud infrastructure geek, and all round nice guy.

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Not a rabid baseball fan but this World Series was special and a great advertisement for the game. Heartbreak for the jays sadly but what a run!

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I love my AirPod Max but the arrogance of refusing to put in a “power off” button boggles the mind… would anyone else get away with this shit?

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@rakyll I would be stunned if they didn’t. Given the response that Deepseek v3 garnered they had enough priors to predict this reaction. Also helps that the announcement coincided with the froth of the Stargate AI announcement.

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First time trying cloudflare pages and pretty impressed:
✅ no credit card to signup
✅ great github integration
✅ seamless framework support (react in this case)
✅ preview deployments for branches

Not sure what more I could ask for?? Can’t believe I didn’t try this sooner.

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@virtualized6ix @pam_jung Eat the hotdog first - then you feel guilty as heck for the rest of the shopping trip for the damage you did to yourself and only pickup the healthy stuff.

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@virtualized6ix The other two goals seem to be about endurance/distance. Is the ride to downtown Toronto a risk tolerance thing? Beautiful bike by the way and the Ontario fall colors don’t hurt the pics either! Miss southern Ontario fall weather…

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@samlambert 🙋

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@cnunciato Definitely the end of an era! Excited for what’s next for you!

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@thdxr @nakedible That is the minimum. You aren’t accounting for the bandwidth costs ($0.045/GB). Note that is both incoming and outgoing. These can balloon quickly.

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@thdxr But EIGW eliminated a massive portion of our bandwidth expenses for NAT gateways.

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@thdxr Carefully analyzed the traffic to see what aws traffic was still going through the NAT and switched to interface EPs for the most egregious ones. We still have a NAT since it doesn’t always make sense to pay for bespoke vpc interface endpoints for a the long tail of aws services.

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@VicVijayakumar @thdxr You could push down the filtering to your lambda’s event source’s filter (https://t.co/mvd7mu1pCR)? I also like event bridge + patterns based filter rules for routing to handlers. Both should help route to better-fitting handlers over an Uber-handler.

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@GergelyOrosz Explains the half-baked state of so many of the services in the outer fringes of AWS’ portfolio like workdocs, code commit etc. You can add services like CloudFormation, CodePipeline etc which despite being around forever are behind the curve by years.

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@GergelyOrosz Developer or end-user workloads are just fundamentally antithetical and a poor fit to how AWS builds products and prioritizes resources. When a CAB of top paying customers dictates your roadmap, the real pain of engineers and practitioners is never going to bubble up.

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Say what you will about the CrowdStrike fiasco, the customer list is pretty impressive (as one can see from the widespread impact). https://t.co/nOUTN03Xto might be the most successful MSP/MSSP execution story out there?

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@vtimd This sucks! Sorry for your loss! Glad she had a great run.

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I bet cybertruck was designed for India. A car with a stainless steel body is something that all Indian aunties and uncles can finally agree on…

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Gee thanks insurance apps - force require an update when I most need it. You have one job! Who is hanging out in their insurance apps on their phone for fun?

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@spencerbeggs @thdxr As step functions evolve and get more complex, testing becomes increasingly painful. You end up doing esoteric asserts on jsonpaths. It’s a completely different model from a durable workflow which just looks like imperative code. The expressiveness is pretty heavily curtailed.