@NotTuxedoSam Imagine being an AWS engineer and you're told the alpha stealth cloaked shadow CTO who permanently lives on a yacht has now docked in San Francisco harbor and his caravan is on the way to the office and then you find out it was a DNS issue.

@laplacesdust the TTL was 5 minutes and he solved it in 4

@NotTuxedoSam according to his blog, he was literally in Antarctica lmao

@kaiotei_ he met with the penguins and told them how to fix it source: i was the penguin

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@stunnaST YES lmao u know

@NotTuxedoSam So basically, if that guy gets hit by a bus, AWS is doomed.

@NotTuxedoSam Real?

@NotTuxedoSam Wait, so the whole digital infrastructure is one yacht disaster away from...being a disaster?

@NotTuxedoSam @QuinnyPig I’ve known James since he was a DB2 architect in Toronto and he is a singularly spectacular mind.

@NotTuxedoSam today i learned James Hamilton is from Waterloo

@NotTuxedoSam @squirtle_says what lol

@NotTuxedoSam Should have bought him Starlink

@NotTuxedoSam Key man risk Hope the man is insured.

@NotTuxedoSam when is it not DNS?

@NotTuxedoSam One old white guy trumps all H1B's.

@NotTuxedoSam James Hamilton didn't start in tech and his journey is extraordinary. Initially, he worked as an auto mechanic. He got interested in computers, went back to school, and then built a massive career at IBM and Microsoft, where he became a key architect of SQL Server. Then he

@NotTuxedoSam He solved it in 4 minutes of landing

@NotTuxedoSam Is it bad I actually went to fact check this

@NotTuxedoSam Amazon's Starlink competitor can't come soon enough

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@NotTuxedoSam You are hilarious. I so wanted that to be real.

@NotTuxedoSam You have to be kidding

@NotTuxedoSam Makes me wonder if the idiot who made a bad dns update was the one who took down all of azure years ago by pasting in a line from a chat log into the f5 gtm global dns name 😂

@NotTuxedoSam DynamoDB taking down half the internet for hours really shows how much infrastructure runs on AWS. $AMZN cloud dominance is unmatched

@NotTuxedoSam So we’re all screwed when this guy stops working?

@NotTuxedoSam @texasgermanbre This guy is the 10,000X evolution on Nick Burns, the company computer guy

@NotTuxedoSam One time I was in an elevator with him during Covid and told him why I thought the elevators were acting abnormally. He thought about it. Said you know what I think you’re right. I’m not even kidding you the elevators never did that again after that day. He is the Amazon fixer.

@NotTuxedoSam holy fuck this is so sick

@NotTuxedoSam Cool

@NotTuxedoSam Legend

@NotTuxedoSam This is the Iliad of status updates. Tragedy, voyage, redemption.

@NotTuxedoSam worth every penny

@NotTuxedoSam Satire is officially dead. These comments just held the funeral.👇

@NotTuxedoSam 4 minutes?!