The Cloud Genie

1 · Rui Carmo · June 24, 2021, 11:02 a.m.
The first paragraph is sheer genius, so much so that I’m stealing a copy: There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears. The genie says that he’ll grant the engineer $1 billion, but only if they can spend $100 million in a single month with three rules. “You can’t gift it away. You can’t gamble with it. And you can’t throw it away.” The software engineer responds with “Well, can I use AWS?” The genie responds with “okay, there are ...