mastodon 4.7.3@redhat@hachyderm.io - Senior Principal Software Engineer, working on #Quarkus Ex-IBM. Java Champion, developer, author, #cloud surfer and maker. My views are my own.
Many auto-scaling systems have a tendency to scale up much more eagerly than to scale down. No one wants to write the auto-scaler that causes an outage.
The result: Many of them treat every day as if it was Black Friday 🦃 , contributing to an industry epidemic of overprovisioning.
Current status: Valiantly resisting the temptation to put some latin ("Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.") into my KubeCon zombies talk.
It's a "birthday cake" flavoured macaron. I can't decide if I'm impressed or shook.
I wrote a nice little thing about internet background noise and ghost packets, but I'm going to have to delete it all. My writing got ahead of my research, and most of what I wrote, including the core analogy, is Just Wrong. 😭
.@lornajane, I am at #YOW24 in Sydney today, and thought of you. Can't think why ...
(The numbers almost say 007, which would be even cooler.)
@metacosm@mastodon.social In Jelly Belly it's mostly vanilla, with a hint of butter. It's nicer than it sounds. I think the other key element is visual - definitely brightly coloured dots, and maybe the whole thing brightly coloured.
@metacosm@mastodon.social it seems "birthday cake" flavour has become decoupled from actual birthdays. Jelly Belly have one too, but without the luminous blue colouring.