Great idea! A few weeks ago a non-technical client of mine decided to optimize his AWS infra bill with the help of AI. The costs went down significantly along with the application.
When working at an influencer marketing company a while ago, back when Instagram still allowed pretty much complete access through their API. As we were indexing the entire Instagram universe for our internal tooling, we had this graph traversal setup to crawl Instagram profiles, then each of their followers etc. We’d need to keep track of visited profiles to not loop and had an Apache Storm cluster for the entire scraping pipeline. It worked, but was cumbersome to work with and monitor as well as couldn’t reach our desired throughput.
Given there were about a billion IG profiles total at the time, I just replaced the entire setup with a single Go script that iterated from 1 to billion and tried to scrape every id in between. That gave us 10k requests per second on a single machine, which was more than enough.
I really, really, really wish this sequence of words did not exist in modern society.
/my unsubstantiated reddit-tier comment which I'm only posting because I'm sure someone will piggyback off of it with something related and actually insightful.
> For the life of me I don’t understand why people absolutely insist on using JavaScript to render HTML. Backend frameworks do HTmL just fine.
There’s an entire universe of front-end developers who don’t even know JavaScript. React is the only thing they’ve ever touched and they’re completely helpless without it.
You can't write React without Javascript. Even the most basic React demos require you to write JS, if only to increment a counter.
Perhaps they don't really "know" the entire monstrosity of Javascript, but that's a tall order. JS is such a big language, with so many redundant features, that most developers will use only a fraction of it.
> I'm not saying this product is good, it's looks interesting but in reality will suck (due to not being able to just close the laptop)
It's one of those situations where the more seamless they make the experience, the quicker the user will end up totalling either the laptop screen / hinges or the touchscreen. Given the position of the connector and how people generally close laptops, it's the perfect lever to crack something.
About a decade ago, a mobile gaming company I was at, accidentally shipped a full-screen ad without the art asset for the close button, so the button was invisible. The ad basically forced users to visit the in-app store for a moment before they could close it.
The sad part is that day we broke all previous daily revenue records.
I don't understand why we don't have a law that specifies an operating-system level input that will always close an ad.
No hunting for tiny X's. No shifting DOM to dodge clicks. Hit Esc and it stops. For iOS and Android force it as part of the UI, like the volume buttons, back/home buttons.
It seems that quite a few mobile gaming companies make this mistake. Or they "accidentally" set the click area of the button offset from the graphic, or very very small.
> I never understand how people bought the propaganda on this. Why would anybody think Russia would blow up a pipeline that they spent years and billions of dollars building? It requires completely rejecting all logic.
Wouldn't be the first time Russia to make a bold move that blows up in their face... 3-day special operation and all.
There was already no gas flowing through either pipeline at the time and with European gas reserves having been kept at an artificially low level, this could've put a lot of pressure on Germany to certify and permit gas flows through the remaining undamaged NS2 pipeline if it hadn't been a mild winter.
This could've been a massive strategic political win for Russia.
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