It seems that clouds balance their budget on egress charges...
It seems that clouds balance their budget on egress charges... which leads to cross cloud communication being too expensive to setup multi cloud redundancy. Cross region redundancy is often too expensive too. Even cross availability zones is too expensive for some clouds and applications. (Cross region redundancy in a single cloud doesn't always work out, if the cloud has an outage on a global subsystem, or the broken subsystem gets pushed to multiple regions before exhibiting symptoms) Additionally, moving your load to a different cloud can be challenging while one is down. It ends up being a lot of work that pays off for a few hours a year. For a lot of applications, it's better to just suffer the downtime and spend money on other things.
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I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
>This is pathological.
1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-c...
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
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You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool.
It seems that clouds balance their budget on egress charges...
It seems that clouds balance their budget on egress charges... which leads to cross cloud communication being too expensive to setup multi cloud redundancy. Cross region redundancy is often too expensive too. Even cross availability zones is too expensive for some clouds and applications. (Cross region redundancy in a single cloud doesn't always work out, if the cloud has an outage on a global subsystem, or the broken subsystem gets pushed to multiple regions before exhibiting symptoms) Additionally, moving your load to a different cloud can be challenging while one is down. It ends up being a lot of work that pays off for a few hours a year. For a lot of applications, it's better to just suffer the downtime and spend money on other things.
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