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@awilfox@mst3k.interlinked.me · Joined ⁨Apr⁩ ⁨2017⁩

Little Dalmatian girl in big Oklahoma doing software engineering, for now. Some day, I'll be moving to London to study veterinary medicine. ACAB (Assigned Canine At Birth).

Female; she/her; religious; tolerant. Left of centre. "70% socialist". Taken, please no flirting.

Loves: God, her boyfriend, Dalmatians, not doing capitalism, cats, C++, Ruby, Rust, spending time with family and friends, writing stories.
Likes: C++, Python, learning new languages (presently studying Ukrainian, with a little Spanish, Dutch, and Russian on the side), drawing and sketching scenes and characters from the stories I write, making new friends. I don't do shallow friendships, though.
Dislikes: C89, Electron.
Does not tolerate: Fascism, bigotry of any kind, Chrome.

Long ago, I founded Adélie Linux. My passion used to be trying to make upstream open source code better. Fighting against Google and Intel wore me out, and I'm virtually out of all that now. IBM Alum.

Statements and opinions posted here do not reflect those of the Interlinked Foundation or its members, or any employer past or present.

These are public musings, so: #yesbot #yesindex. #noai though.

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🌈 Anna (Spots) cutely@awilfox@mst3k.interlinked.me

so painfully true, it hurts (and I've seen it pretty much everywhere I've ever worked.)

Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia:@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems

Webscale: a chalky residue deposited on architecture when ordinary software is repeatedly exposed to trace amounts of Google engineering blog posts.

Commonly found on:

  • Kubernetes clusters serving 11 requests/minute
  • Kafka installations whose entire event stream could fit in a flatfile or SQLite
  • 14 microservices performing the duties of one medium-sized daemon
  • Globally distributed databases where all users live in the same state
  • Service meshes connecting 3 services
  • Organisations with 4 engineers and a Platform Engineering Team

Removal usually requires a strong solution of “what problem are we actually solving?” and a wire brush.

Severe cases may require application of a harsh cleaner known as Monolith™. Apply liberally until the architecture becomes understandable again.

For deeply embedded Webscale deposits, use PostgreSQL at full strength. Do not dilute with Cassandra.