good thread on the toxicity of “engagement” as a metric
Dan Luu:
At a meta level, something I find mildly interesting is how many people [jm: ex-Twitter staff specifically] are writing stuff on Mastodon about how it’s impossible for Mastodon to scale up without using an ad supported model (b/c server costs), it’s better to have ranked feeds because most people want them, etc. The thing I think is interesting is that the people writing this stuff, implicitly, seemingly cannot conceive of a model where the organization is not growth and profit maximizing.
(tags: engagement twitter social-media metrics kpis mastodon profit capitalism)
AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries
Really valuable info if you’re building resilient services atop AWS; Amazon revealing where their services have cross-region or single-region-of-failure dependencies
(tags: aws dependencies uptime reliability iam)