Automating BGP table changes is definitely a great way to more efficiently push errors far and wide.
And when you inevitably discover the errors of your automated ways, you can always rely on the ultimate manual cage door opener: the angle grinder.
It's reasonable to think that robots can run technical things better than the group of grey ponytails who seemingly keep the internet together with a mishmash of handshakes, UTP, zip-ties, shoe-goo, Panama Red, PVC tape, and a bit too much perl.
It's reasonable, but it's wrong.
Every few years, a new group of people need to be reminded of that. Internet peering primarily runs on handshakes, favors and the healthy fear of "Don't F it Up" (which allows for "always trust the announcements" architecture)
Robots still aren't very good at those soft skills.
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I am not a journalist, and I'm still not a lawyer, but a long time ago my professors had a very scary word to describe this behavior. It started with a P, and was best avoided by citing sources and giving attribution.
Step 0: Citadel pays Robinhood for order flow. Citadel gets to see RH's orders a few milliseconds before they're filled. Citadel may choose to front-run some of those trades.
Step 1: RH's customers and WallStreetBets start manipulating $GME. This is happening in the open.
Officially, they're manipulating $GME (and $BB and $KOSS) because these low-value stocks are being very heavily shorted, and if something moves the value of the stock up (like, tens of thousands of retail investors acting in near unison), those short-sellers may be forced to sell
...to cover their borrowed shares. If most shares are held by retail investors who won't sell, the price will skyrocket (supply/demand) until someone does. The bear hedge funds and such will still have to buy to cover, which may cause a bit of a liquidity crisis for the funds.
Don't want: Delays seeing tweets from accounts that tweet timely information (@I80chains, @CAquake), and then seeing them re-appear in "Did you miss this?" 48 hours later, when they're stale.
I don't love the promoted tweets/ads, but I recognize you've got a business to run.
I've ported one of my bots from the stream API to the AA API. I haven't decided whether to do the others or to just abandon them. Considering the prohibitive pricing above the "sandbox" tier, I'm not inclined.