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The title is a bit misleading. Their death had nothing to do with China, they perished in a tropical storm.

and their APAC backbone: http://weathermap.ovh.net/#apac with Singapore somewhat migrated to the new architecture

looks like Tesuto was a good buy

https://investors.fastly.com/news/news-details/2020/Fastly-A...:

> By emulating networks at scale, Tesuto’s technology can be used to create sandbox environments that simulate the entire Fastly network, providing a view into the potential impact of a deployment cycle before it is put into production.

Yeah, I'm not sure what are they thinking... i have some calendar reminders popup from time-to-time on an interesting _broadcast_, but not once i actually sit down to watch it. Shame, as there're 4-5 programs every week i would be happy to watch on-demand

so, essentially you blew privacy because of favicons? favicons??

At a cloud storage company i worked for we had the most cost-intensive part of our infrastructure, the object storage ready to be switched over from Azure to AWS, just in case.

They are sketchy: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=palantir+cambridge+analytica

Actually, i think it is symmetrical. The fear of missing out on making a ton of money is just as scary for a trader.

These comments make me sad as i work there, at ibm and in the cloud business. But i have to agree with you. It's looking pretty bad from the inside. higher management seems incompetent in making the pieces (like redhat, softlayer, the paas) into an efficient, large machine. But that doesn't make our work less interesting in our smaller teams.