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nick@midwest.social 3 months ago
Former employee here, quit in 2017 after 8 years.
I am watching hundreds of people stream in to the “square mafia” slack as 11+ year tenured people are shitcanned.
Extremely depressing.
nick@midwest.social 3 months ago
Meanwhile, very few people are left who know how Linux actually works, which is why they had that massive outage last year; turns out adding over 100k iptables rules to every server in the data center is a bad idea.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Hey, I bet we could get the benefits of Istio by using iptables. What could go wrong?”
nick@midwest.social 3 months ago
I guarantee you someone thought they could reinvent istio. Historically square is HORRIBLE about “not invented here”