EU is a big customers of lots of stuff from US military vendors so US didn't exactly give things for free to the EU either.
Should have EU relied less on US and actually spend those agreed upon 2%+ of GDP like Poland, Finland and others have and be self reliant? Yes. Very much so.
We have constant autoscaling issues because of this in GCP - glad someone plotted this - hope people in GCP will pay a bit more attention to this. Thanks to the OP!
Not a question, but a testimonial: the quality of work from Peter Roberts's firm has declined in the last couple of years. We switched to different attorney this year. We've had dozens of cases for different people where they made lots of mistakes in the applications. I'm not sure why, but I would stay away from them.
Finally a webhook as a service done right! I've been watching Hookdeck's progress closely and I'm super impressed with what they managed to achieve especially on the CLI side recently. It's exactly what you need to setup a webhook service in development and then seamlessly transition to a full-blown production app with 1000s rps without changing anything.
I've build webhook systems myself in the past and there are so so many issues that you don't think about at first that are difficult to solve correctly like staggering retries, routing, logging is a big one! Really happy that there is now a great service for this. Nice work!
Instead of creating some sort of government/non-profit censorship API and giving up the controls to content censorship, they are playing this censor role that will never have an end. Nobody will ever be satisfied. If they were smart they would say something like the ISPs: Hey, we're just providing the infra, we don't control the content and point the finger at the government.
Is it really profitable to have this information flow controller? Don't they just want to sell ads?
Look, I know it's not that simple. But why not do this?
While these ideas (imperative vs sync, immutability + idempotency) a great in theory, I have yet to see anyone putting them in practice while still keeping a great developer experience - that includes Zapier. I guess Stripe is doing this more or less well?
I just wish people implemented their webhook systems well (a popular standard would be nice as well) - REST is fine, it mostly works and it's pretty standard.
Software should be built to accomplish its purpose. It's not a special snowflake, it's a tool to do some specific job. To think otherwise is to setup yourself and your company/team for disaster.
Kernels, compilers, language runtimes, databases? Sure, build them to last.
Web pages that will not be used in 2 weeks? Don't waste your time with "build to last".
The problem is that some of us think that our software should be build to last - but in reality it's just some mediocre thing that needs to get in front of the clients as fast as possible and some bugs are "OK" to live with.
Maybe gravity is not a force in a quantum sense, but just geometry of spacetime in the presence of mass? Maybe there is no graviton and no quantum theory is needed to explain gravity.
Is there any strong evidence that gravity is following quantum mechanics? Maybe a real theoretical physicist can explain.