Monk Gloats Over Yoga Championship – The Onion
One of the Onion’s all-time classics. Still eminently quotable.
LHASA, TIBET—Employing the brash style that first brought him to prominence, Sri Dhananjai Bikram won the fifth annual International Yogi Competition yesterday with a world-record point total of 873.6. “I am the serenest!” Bikram shouted to the estimated crowd of 20,000 yoga fans, vigorously pumping his fists. “No one is serener than Sri Dhananjai Bikram—I am the greatest monk of all time!”
The Centennial Society’s business reply pamphlet | Stop Junk Mail
The classic “office riot” pamphlet… ‘The Centennial Society, a radical anti-consumerist movement, has come up with a more arty way of returning junk mail. Pre-paid envelopes can be used to send people working in the junk mail industry information about how to break free. No junk mailer really likes his job; wasting tonnes and tonnes of paper on useless advertisements makes few people feel good about themselves. The Business Reply Pamphlet shows them the way to freedom.’
(tags: riot offices junk-mail funny art centennial-society ads trash-the-gaff)
Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the World’s Busiest Gambling Sites
Solid article proselytising runbooks/playbooks (or in this article’s parlance, “Incident Models”) for dev/ops handover and operational knowledge
(tags: ops process sre devops runbooks playbooks incident-models)
Spotify’s Love/Hate Relationship with DNS
omg somebody at Spotify really really loves DNS. They even store a DHT hash ring in it. whyyyyyyyyyyy
(tags: spotify networking architecture dht insane scary dns unbound ops)
-
In case you were thinking Lambda was potentially usable yet
(tags: lambda aws shitshow architecture serverless)