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How often does your data change? If infrequent you could cache the generated page and not query D1 for subsequent requests at all.

Thought it was just me, strange time to flip that switch without notice

The average non fiction book is 200 pages, can be summarized in under 10, and is repackaging someone else’s ideas Literary slop being replaced with AI

Sun Rays were so awesome. Smart cards for authentication and sessions. Options for fiber directly to them. Great tech that died with Sun.

"The timing of this is coincidental with the large outage on April 27, 2026." This PS is as impactful as the body of the post.

And almost by happenstance Apple. Turns out they have a great platform for inference and torched almost nothing comparatively on Siri. The Apple/Gemini deal is interesting, Google …

Did they submit 500 patches?

Did anyone make a copy they can share?

No API and Bots is a feature for me

He also has a 25 Gbps Internet connection - not really a huge problem here

Shopify did this - it’s frightening when you see the numbers across your entire org

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My immediate reaction reading the post was “don’t use PayPal” Online marketplaces, multiparty sellers, credit card transactions, etc… are hard enough as it is Don’t become dependen…

I know some large AWS environments that run a variation of this Autoscaling fleet - image starts, downloads container from registry and starts on instance 1:1 relationship between …

$33m/year burn accelerating to $50m+/year Profitability and exit math just got harder I love the service and am rooting for them - I just don’t get this cash outlay I can’t wait to…

99% of consumer tech would die

First I don't believe this is an effective remedy to break up a Google monopoly, but I have no influence on the DOJ. I'm curious though, if Google can no longer pay browsers for se…

The FTC action is because GoDaddy claimed to have security when they didn’t - not because they didn’t have security in the first place. Subtle but important difference. Also the re…

You might want to move, but do all ~49,999 other people share the same view?

There's places where it makes sense to be on the cloud, and places where it doesn't. The two best examples I can give are for high bandwidth, or heavy disk intensive applications. …

If you didn't lower your bandwidth costs way more than 50% we should chat.

We’ll surely see a note is their next earnings release about the uptick in Gemini usage

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Is this really a $4B investment, or credits on AWS? AWS margins are close to 40%, so the real cost of this "investment" would be way less than the press release.

Life expectancy is statistical probability The mission targets a length of time, then the engineering matches for the design and build Reality is usually much longer