I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”

Crude but also accurate

Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP

Google forcing customers to drink gemini, as demonstrated by a woman forcing another to drink milk

Okay, where did Google hide the "fuck off, go away" toggle for Gemini in Workspaces this week?

They're rapidly running out of goodwill to burn.

My second blog post on Aurora DSQL, with a deep dive on how reads work: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

Years ago when I was CTO at an agency in NYC, I stopped by a vendor booth (rhymes with Splunk) at a conf, and while I was asking questions about corp pricing and licenses, he interrupted me mid-word to tell me how beautiful my eyes were.

He’s not wrong. My eyes are gorgeous but WTFF

Did not buy

📢 Calling all #PlatformEngineering folks: Do you practice Platform as a Product?
I've been talking about Platform as a Product for the past few years horovits.medium.com/a0cad2cdc819..., and I'm glad to see it's become a popular topic recently in talks and articles.

But do co's really do it❓
[1/n]

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

There no vendor lock-in quite like “we built it ourselves”

Got 3 new zines today! ☺️

Platform Engineering on Kubernetes Empower your team with platforms built on top of Kubernetes using open source tools.</b> Adopting Kubernetes is complex—especially when you’re working in an organization with multiple teams, deployin...

Currently listening to the Audiobook version of the great "Platform Engineering on Kubernetes"

I wish more technical books are available as audiobook, as I have no time to read a (tech-)book, but have often time to listen to something while doing houshold chores.

www.manning.com/books/platfo...

Jeff Goldblum Jurassic park meme, text is you devs were so preoccupied with whether you *could* embed a SQLlite database in a pgsql table you didn't stop to think if you should

Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, showing @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io as the handle

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱

I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

Hello Internet! 👋 First post here - not because I just migrated from xitter but because everyone just joined bsky!

Main focus here is mostly my professional / business work, connect with others and get some new ideas. #NewHere