A straw is topologically the same as a donut. It absolutely has one hole.

There's nothing wrong with a monolith. Microservices are not inherently more scalable. Their advantage is around scaling teams. If anything, a monolith can be more performant as in-process calls are much faster thent network calls.

Meme aside, this image really bugs me. There's no outlet for the river; very soon the water is going to overflow that dam and that town is fucked.

I have a Miele washer/heat pump dryer combo. From my experience, the dryer is about the same as what I'm used to from a conventional dryer (~45 minutes), but the washer takes a lot longer. As I understand it, the washer does a more thorough spin cycle so the dryer has to do less work.

That said, I have been very happy with mine.

I've heard of the Emu war, but what was China's?

A clever scammer could create scam/phishing/advertisement posts on their instance that are artificially upvoted to the top. They could even have ChatGPT make a bunch of comments to make them seem real.

Hopefully, other instances would catch on and defederate from them, but if they're subtle or just wait until they have a bunch of users it would probably be enough to scam quite a few people.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "network operating system", but monoliths are inherently just as scaleable as services.

Imagine you have a service architecture, and you are running 2 of service A, 4 of service B, and 8 of service C.

Alternatively, you could be running a monolith on 14 nodes. Most of the work those 14 nodes will be doing work that would have been covered by service C, it's just spread out in a different way.

Take a pancake. Put a hole in it. It's now a torus.

Seattle was not "literally falling a part".

I have 31 GitHub followers. AMA.

Here in Seattle, soooo many businesses have pride flags and the like year round. It doesn't put a target on anyone's back.

Those pressures being narcissism and idiocy?

There are no pressures forcing them to destroy these sites.

There are paths to profitability that don't include the drastic and hostile changes that they're making.