Podcast Episode 92: Internet oopsies, innovation, etc...

In today's episode Mo and I talk about various oopsies that happened recently with Cloudflare and AWS. How Rust Evangelism Strike Force is on high alert after a wild .unwrap() has brought down half the internet again... From there the conversation flows into how to prevent such terrible outages, and, in my opinion, if you create a culture of quadruple-checking everything to mitigate all possible risks, there's no more fun to be had and all creative output dwindles.

That brings out the idea of highly bureaucratized environments, ossified and calcified... Big companies that had stepped on all of these rakes and now have to be very cautious, due to SLA's, contracts, customer expectations, et cetera.

Like, what do those thousands of engineers do at Meta? What's the cool innovative thing they have come up with recently? I posit that all their efforts are spent on changing #99D9EA into #99D9EE on a button to see how that would affect conversion rates... Those product managers have to ship features, lest their own future with the company is in jeopardy.

We talk about innovation in general, what does it mean, where is it today? We were promised freaking flying cars by year 2000.

Various other bits and bobs included... Check it out.