New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
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Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#2This is tech at it’s finest. Also why I come to HN.
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#3I wonder if this will end up entering the lexicon like Turboencabulator.
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#4This looks like it went viral _because_ it was entirely fictional, not in spite of it. Everyone seems in on the joke.
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#5Mostly because of people referring to it when talking about the very real Google Cloud Predictive autoscaler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27719071
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#6This looks like it went viral _because_ it was entirely fictional, not in spite of it. Everyone seems in on the joke.
Except The Register, unless their article is the meta-joke:
> We’ve also seen reports that Infinidash has a role in the Internet of Things.
>> Just did it out first integration of IoT Kettle Manager -> AWS Infinidash -> Firehose. At scale, can now boil the ocean on demand with full observability!
Of course there will be the ones who are taken by the hype and stop short of actually caring about what that is beyond "buzzword tech". But the examples chosen for the article are the joke.
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#7This looks like it went viral _because_ it was entirely fictional, not in spite of it. Everyone seems in on the joke.
The industry is already recruiting senior Infinidash Engineers, demanding 5 years of expertise.
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#9Kinda makes me think of all the hyped pump-and-dump cryptocurrencies with a big technowizard story behind them about how it'll magically solve world hunger while being carbon negative and wild claims like that.
Re: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
#10This looks like it went viral _because_ it was entirely fictional, not in spite of it. Everyone seems in on the joke.
The industry is already recruiting senior Infinidash Engineers, demanding 5 years of expertise.
Those were joke ads that were literally a reply to the initial thread (that underlined that it was a joke) on Twitter.