So @LastWeekinAWS sponsor @stackeryio got acquired. By other @LastWeekinAWS sponsor @awscloud.

I'm going to need a minute here.
AWS doesn't generally do acquisitions like this.
Oh, it's an acquihire and the service is getting axed.
We know how that happens.

"What's a Stackery?"
"Google it."

That was misunderstood, so AWS acquired the company to shut the product down.

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Time to put on my Cloud Economics Pants and do a bit of math around @Cloudflare's R2 pricing model as described herein.

blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2…
So today I'm going to store 1GB of data in @awscloud's S3 and serve it out to the internet. The storage charge is 2.3¢ per month the tier 1 regions.
Someone on the internet grabs that 1GB of data once. I'm paying 9¢ to send it to them. You read that right; just shy of four months' of storage charges to send it to the internet once.
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I might get yelled at for this thread, but we'll give it a shot.

I'm not sure anyone needs to hear it as much as I needed to hear it myself a decade and change ago.
If you work in tech, either as an employee or as a consultant, most people you encounter *will not understand what you do*. "Something to do with the computers" is the best you can hope for.
They may be vaguely aware of a few additional facts. Such as "the company claims that people are their most important asset but pay the people who work on the computers three times what they pay the people who work in HR."
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And now, "Lies This Industry Told Me."

Gather round...
"The forms are all normal, just sign them."

They sure are insistent that you sign the forms. If they matter that much to them, you should absolutely read them first. For bonus points, consult an employment attorney.

Only a fool signs something they've not read.
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That's an excellent entry point to a negotiation! Eventually everything becomes negotiable.
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As threatened last week, let's kick the tires on @dynobase, a pay-for desktop DynamoDB client.

Granted, it's only gotta beat the @awscloud console experience...
I start by downloading it from the internet. As opposed to what, exactly?
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And now, a thread on my @alexa99 experiences.

I begin by asking you to please miss me with "don't put surveillance devices in your home" style takes. We all decide our own level of risk.
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Not including that one, I have ~6 dedicated devices or so scattered throughout my home.
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