Yup. I have an adblocker, but after the first answer (which was crap) I got a link to the question "What is jam made from?" and then got prompted with a modal to prompt me to make an account. Never again.
I have personal experience of a few companies in the UK where GCP are offering 90+% discounts to onboard. GCP are spending hundreds of millions to do this. K8S control-planes are a rounding error compared to this.
You could have grandfathered in current deployments but - nope. In the tech world this is up there with killing Google Reader.
BBC research are amazing. They've been doing this for decades, most recently with next gen codecs and latency issues on internet transmission. As a British person I'm actually proud of them, even though many people complain their politics are orthogonal to mine.
Yeah, Google's SSO is fine unless the first logged-in account (/u/0) is one with a redirect to a company portal login. At which point you have to manipulate the URL to get to a different account.
Not a chance. It's never a single engineer, code gets the PR checked by another engineer and the Jira will be specific with any PII, probably written by committee, all of whom know the importance of the data. Don't conflate this crap with blaming a single nebulous engineer.
I've not worked in years at a place that wouldn't understand the importance of PII. Not that it doesn't happen, but let's not mince words here - this was wilfully done.