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I think it succeeded at being funny. tptacek is a Nümad lad.

• tptacek 4y ago
  I'm mostly just curious about which terms the reader thinks are made up.
  • titanomachy 4y ago
    I particularly liked "Katamari Damacy scheduling", but I would guess that at least some of the cultural references (dilithium crystals, Marcellus Wallace) could be confusing to folks not steeped in a particularly nerdy subset of American-ish culture. I think if references and jokes are landing for (say) 80% of your target audience then you're doing pretty well. I liked the article. Interesting approach to scheduling as kind of a market exchange problem. It's cool to see what an infra service can look like when you ditch the constraints and path dependence that led to the "standard" cloud architecture and build something totally new. The user experience seems like multi-tenant Borg, but nimbler.
    • tptacek 4y ago
      D'oh, I meant to link Katamari.
    • lmm 4y ago
      That particular use of "Kleenex" is an Americanism I had to consciously interpret.