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Is this common? Might be a bit slow here but this sounds like hoarding.

Bought by Thoma Bravo. Fits the pattern. You would think they would be trying to mash up some these companies to corner the SMB security market but they seem to keep all their companies distinct.

A few household names on the acquisition list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoma_Bravo#Transactions

What a synergistic synchronicity. Looks like we are going to have to table this discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22381517

This article has a clear value-prop.

We can table this discussion for now. Lets take it offline.

More Air Force jargon, every now and then something on the plane had to be malletized.

Terraform gets unruly at scale, and makes it hard to pass it off to other teams or take a vacation if you're responsible when it breaks.

Aviatrix popped up on my radar recently trying to solve the operations side of this. Handles cross account TGW attachments and simplifies the routing.

Looking at my resources globally is easier in Azure as well. Having to click on each region in AWS to see all my instances makes my head hurt.

Interesting story and some good detective work but the ending isn't satisfying.

I'm guessing this is Direct Connect out of the Equinix/Ashburn location, so they are probably working with a partner. There are probably a few black boxes in between their servers and AWS S3 edges. If this is affecting them I would expect to see a lot of people seeing the same thing.

I'm not really surprised an AWS support team shrugged it off but it seems like there are some more pieces to this.

https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/partners/

The twist is a lot big companies(Global 2000) are the least cloud savvy, being dragged kicking and screaming out of their data centers.

They don't even know what they don't know, and when Azure shows up offering AD which they already use to manage their juggernaut of a domain it feels like home. They haven't even considered lock in yet.

The teams that end up managing Azure infrastructure come from a more IT/Networking background. Azure supported UDP load balancing before AWS, and has more intuitive and easier to build internal load balancers.

AWS tends to appeal to more cloud native companies that just want to build and tend to be younger. Azure appeals to the familiarity and ease of transition for the 20 year IT squad that is trying to stay relevant.

Probably do better reading these all in one place than trying to cobble them together from random blogs from 2009.

This one is the Irrational escalation or Escalation of commitment/Sunk Cost Fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

This has happened more than a few times in Wichita. They are usually aiming for KICT but hit other airports. We had to file a flight plan out of Jabara for a private jet that was actually trying to land at KICT for maintenance. Didnt make the news but we did have to plan for the minimum amount of fuel.

Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift, allein die Dosis macht dass ein Ding kein Gift ist. All things are poison, and nothing is without poison, the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.

—Paracelsus

This is the scarcity tactic straight out of Influence by Robert Cialdini. Its a hardwired response that works on a lot of people.

Good book to raise your awareness about how you're being manipulated by sales and marketing.

https://www.influenceatwork.com/principles-of-persuasion/

Dealt with the same thing recently(two months early, 6 weeks nicu) and the final bill was 1.5 mil.

Insurance haggled them down to ~750k. I paid $500.

Ive noticed in the last month people mounting their phones on their steering wheel or dash and watching tv. Full on Korean dramas or whatnot. As bad as that is there is a special place in hell for drivers who make eye contact with the passenger they are talking to while driving.

Consumption buying is mostly done through the AWS marketplace. Its a good model for companies to try a new vendor but AWS is going to take a big wet bite out of the vendors bottom line. Buying licenses directly from vendors is going to benefit both sides if they have a known demand. You'll generally see an "all you can eat" license after a certain threshold.

I've worked with a few of them. This song sums it up pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLIfkiF8NeQ

Kohls accepts Amazon returns now. Then they hand you a 25% off coupon. People turn right around and shop at kohls with their new found return money. Brilliant strategy.

Former CEO James McNerney used to fly in the BBJ all the time. Sometimes he was the only passenger.

You can whiteboard in zoom.

I was in chicago last week riding the L to the airport. One of the doors broke, and a maintenance worker came on to tell everyone to use the other door.

There were 10 more stops to the airport.

At every one someone tried to exit using the broken door. At first it was funny because they not only didn't hear the worker explain it, but also didn't notice the 5 people at the last stop who just did the same thing.

I started telling people as I saw them try to approach the door, but the look on everyones face was "who is this creep trying to talk to me right now".

So you should quit more often and you'll get better at it. Thats my kind of advice.

Quitting a job is like leaving a party. You probably didn't like everyone there. You probably avoided some people. That's where the Irish Goodbye shines. You get to leave without having to decide who to say goodbye to, and avoid long winded and shallow well wishes. As long as you aren't burning bridges, it actually benefits both sides in a lot of ways to just ghost on coworkers.

That first link is a rabbit hole. https://www.salon.com/2001/07/30/almaden1/

Cool trails up there, lots of history, just sucks that its the reason we can't fish in anything downstream of that in the south bay.

What I saw in common with the people who were laid off recently at my company was their shoehorned positions in the org chart.

As the money gets tighter, all these made up titles from some long dead project were huge red flags. Managers and directors with no one really reporting to them.

Added to that, most of them were paid 3x-4x of a newer hire and were mostly burnt out on trying to keep up with new technology.

Saw it looking for 'python lambda' then proceeded to bomb the test.

https://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed...

I watched the original Nick Parlante videos that this material is based off 7 years ago, and recommend it to anybody that thinks they need to learn programming.

First Lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk

I took a couple C classes in college that were geared for people who already knew how to program and hated it. Never wanted to think about it again.

Those videos helped abstract a lot of the low level muck away and build real stuff. Once I was able to understand some of these concepts and why you would actually use them I could go back and learn all the things that were too deep in the weeds to understand.

Its a bit dated now but still some of the best training videos I've seen.

I wonder how many of these pilots planned to fly AA flights to get to their vacation destination.

Probably. first thing I thought.

Instead of opting out of these, a better idea would be to fill them up with fake info if that were possible. Like some other comments mentioned, you're confirming the data for them when you fill out these forms.

Lexis Nexis is a major one and only lets you opt out under unique circumstances that will not apply for most people.

Anyone have good sources on where these companies pull their data from?

Exactly what I did. Good practice for getting a server setup quickly. https://medium.com/@therockspush/setting-up-a-free-cloud-bas...