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*New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional* Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would app
by egypturnash 5y ago
*New mystery AWS product 'Infinidash' goes viral — despite being entirely fictional*
Reg chats to developer whose joke that mere mention of a new prod would appear in job ads came true and spawned books, songs, forks, cryptocoin, and more
- the title and strapline of the article you are quoting
- buran77 5y agoI'm not saying The Register doesn't know the tech is a joke, just that they don't seem to realize everyone else knows too and they're in on it. The article takes some people's obviously humorous quotes as evidence that they're falling for the scam. So even an obviously remark like "can now boil the ocean on demand with full observability!" is taken seriously as "reports that Infinidash has a role in the Internet of Things".