This looks like it went viral _because_ it was entirely fictional, not in spite of it. Everyone seems in on the joke.
Maybe I'm a curmudgeon in my old age, but the whole thing seems pretty lame to me.
> Must include considerable time spent within the Infinidash lifecycle (OpenDash acceptable). Infinidash is at the core of everything we do.
Why yes, I have exactly this skill set
What it might filter out are people who don't find this joke funny, and might decide not to apply (and on the countrary it will catch the attention of people finding this funny and concluding Signal must be a cool place to work).
Getting devs attention on a job offer is hard these days, so I guess spicing it a bit is fair.
There are too many jobs that I am qualified for to bother taking time for a deep dive on a job that I'm not qualified for.
No they'll find more and more examples of the joke, and so keep thinking it's real, but never any explanation.
> 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.
- the title and strapline of the article you are quoting
The article takes some people's obviously humorous quotes as evidence that they're falling for the scam. So even an obviously remark like "can now boil the ocean on demand with full observability!" is taken seriously as "reports that Infinidash has a role in the Internet of Things".