@forrestbrazeal wow, I see this and I really do think technically you are your own VP. You might need another reorg seeing this diagram.

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@forrestbrazeal OMG this is brilliant

@forrestbrazeal "this is what peak performance looks like"

@forrestbrazeal tag yourself (i'm the Tiny cron)

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Are you missing naming services hacks?

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This is entirely too accurate.

@forrestbrazeal@hachyderm.io The real trick to dealing with cloud is trying to ignore as many services as you can, adding new ones only when without them the system wouldn't work. I'd say that increases the survival possibilities a lot.

@forrestbrazeal this is brilliantly designed and true

@forrestbrazeal I don't think I've ever seen smart use of containers in any database I've worked on. I'm sure they work well for those that build around them.

@forrestbrazeal I was just getting over the PTSD from experiencing this 'architecture' last year. The company had converted from Monolith to microservices.... to an insane degree. I was surprised they didn't have a "capitalize the tags" service. (well done on the graphic!)

@forrestbrazeal you forgot the ”trying to keep up with weekly modulating best practices“ frontend layer.

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It's the tiny cron that will destroy everything too

@forrestbrazeal I loled at “Résumé”.

@forrestbrazeal I'm laughing so damn hard right now!!

This is literally a picture of our architecture map!! 😂 😂

@forrestbrazeal Real talk. Only its three or four tiny cron jobs...

@forrestbrazeal This is great. Our team's Slack channel is having fun "relating" to this architecture diagram!

@forrestbrazeal I lost it at the VPN of sadness, but it was the data swamp that really made me cry

@forrestbrazeal I guess it's part of the joke but:
1. Where are the clients?
2. This lacks a legacy in-house critical service that hasn't been updated in decades and does the actual job.

@forrestbrazeal Uh oh. My circa 2022 architecture needs to evolve - it has far too much duct tape to be 2023 compliant.

@forrestbrazeal blame radius is heckin genius and I will be stealing this

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LOL "VPN of sadness"

@forrestbrazeal you could remove the word cloud and it would still work

@forrestbrazeal Killme.png

@forrestbrazeal a png that will find its way to cubicles everywhere very soon

@forrestbrazeal excuse me, this is privileged information

@forrestbrazeal I feel seen.

@forrestbrazeal this uncannily describes the stack at $dayjob

@forrestbrazeal 😁 the one tiny cron job that keeps the Cloud Rube Goldberg machine from collapsing.

@forrestbrazeal no lies detected! :)

@forrestbrazeal it would be funnier if it weren’t so trueeee. Just missing “serverless”

@forrestbrazeal missing: that one crown job that is essential to the business that takes EVERYTHING down.

@forrestbrazeal I've worked on more of these pieces than I'm comfortable admitting in public.

@forrestbrazeal where is the rc.local hack to get everything started at boot?

@forrestbrazeal OUCH! Way too accurate.

@forrestbrazeal how did you use one diagram to accurately depict every system I’ve ever worked on.

@forrestbrazeal Beautiful

@forrestbrazeal Is "blame radius" meaning "stuff in here, someone is to blame for", or does it mean "this is RADIUS' fault"?

Because the latter makes me excited to have a new way to do containers wrong, but I feel like it's supposed to be the former?

@forrestbrazeal pretty much yes...

@forrestbrazeal Is that splotch in the Data Swamp a goose that Ian Coldwater left behind when escaping?

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I think I laugh a bit too much at this. Especially at: one tiny cron job keeping everything from falling apart.

Though, I say, where is: missing network documentation or network documentation never or haven't been updated in years. 😂

@forrestbrazeal “Services that like to watch” got me.

@forrestbrazeal "One tiny chron job"!

@forrestbrazeal event bus -> resume hurt my feelings lmao

@forrestbrazeal @jeroen1511 is this true

@forrestbrazeal Haaah love it

@forrestbrazeal This is brilliant. Always the tiny cron job...

@forrestbrazeal This is far too real.

@forrestbrazeal I should write a song about the VPN of sadness.

@forrestbrazeal I promote you to CTO. Add blockchain and AI and I will make you CIO.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

@forrestbrazeal @streamofron you know, that one tiny cron job has saved my ass several times.

@forrestbrazeal lololoolo I'm the data engineer excited about the pipes

@forrestbrazeal I'm sad to say I've been the engineer giving the cute business propaganda version of this presentation at a company I used to work for. I'm not proud of that phase of my life.

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"One tiny cron job that keeps everything from falling apart."

Yep there's always one of those.

@forrestbrazeal you forgot the part where at least 70% of it is ran by furries

@forrestbrazeal I could show you a real life example which looks *exactly* like this.

@forrestbrazeal it forgot, that the cron job holding everything up, is actually undocumented...

@forrestbrazeal @andreS ^^

@forrestbrazeal So true about the résumé part.

@forrestbrazeal thank you for explaining it all

@forrestbrazeal This is giving me a chuckle and a tear because it's so accurate to live architectures I've seen before 🥲

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That's just awesome <3

Though there probably should have been a tiny sad IAM locked in a cell whining "please can I be your friend?"

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Love it. Techies get so caught up with their toys, they don't stop to ask if it is achieving any real-world benefits.

@forrestbrazeal welcome to 2019 - this is a great idea, 2020 - it’s just tricky cos of Covid, 2021 - oh, people actually want to use this, 2022 - MAKE IT WORK, 2023 - what if we use a different cloud service?, 2024 - and repeat……..😫

@forrestbrazeal thanks for reminding me why I don't do anything like backend / full stack anymore 😆