The slow grind of the decloudify project
continues. To date, I think we have:
- Moved about 100 applications away from AWS-based
hosting and dependencies, back to containers
hosted on bare metal.
- Removed about 50 API-based messaging services
back to traditional SMTP.
- Moved about 5TB of data away from S3, over to
just plain-old-Linux with nginx.
I spent today removing the remaining ECR
repositories which were storing a container images
for the applications; 500GB of historic images!
I'm really enjoying watching the crypto space burn
down. The fucking grifters deserve to lose
everything. I was at a Goldman Sachs forum in
London a few weeks back discussing the future of
crpyto in charitable giving. I felt like the only
sane person in the room.
It was like a parallel world.
The room was filled with executives from huge
charities (real A-lists, managing GBP100m+ of
donations per year), who were so hell-bent on
'investing' donor funds in crypto, and all I want
to to is hold them by the shoulders and shake
them: "do you not realise the collapse is
happening RIGHT NOW".
It's terrifying to realise how much money is being
managed by idiots. And sobering when you realise
that so much of the 'vision' of crypto has been
lost in centralisation -- and now the end is on
the horizon.
