Jack Dorsey’s Block lays off ‘large number’ of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts::Dorsey told staff in a Tuesday memo that a “large number” of Block employees, including those at Cash App and Square, were being laid off.

  • nick
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    9 months ago

    Meanwhile, very few people are left who know how Linux actually works, which is why they had that massive outage last year; turns out adding over 100k iptables rules to every server in the data center is a bad idea.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      turns out adding over 100k iptables rules to every server in the data center is a bad idea.

      “Hey, I bet we could get the benefits of Istio by using iptables. What could go wrong?”

      • nick
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        9 months ago

        I guarantee you someone thought they could reinvent istio. Historically square is HORRIBLE about “not invented here”