The way the engineers built the update/publish operation was synchronous from their primary data center to a number of globally distributed data centers. Publish didn’t “complete” until a receiver in each data center responded with an ACK after parsing and uploading to a nearby region cloud bucket. Any failure/timeout caused the entire transaction across all data centers to retry. All of traffic was over multiple VPNs, hub and spoke style. They built this system in 2020.

They constantly complained and generated incident reports about p95/p99 latencies to the Asia regions. Latencies that were perfectly reasonable when you considered the multiple global round trips that were being made, the size/volume of objects in the publish, set of operations and speed of light.

They swore that because the client UX to publish the change to the primary data center used JavaScript async that the entire process was async. They denied repeatedly that their “all receivers ack complete to succeed” business logic was synchronous. I shit you not.

There's little to no basic understanding of networking, distributed systems, databases, etc. 99% of our engineers were hired from their college internships and never worked anywhere else. Industry hires to improve systems rarely last more than a year and it is almost never their fault.

We're in the next tier down from the biggest tech companies and what we do is hardly uncommon among our peers.

I should be shocked that 99% of engineers I deal with treat all resources as infinite bandwidth, 100% uptime, but I'm not. They NIH super hard and write tons of code for things that a docker container running nginx (or similar) would solve in 5 minutes. There's almost no useful testing and worse documentation.

Welcome to corporate life.

I don't necessarily agree with it either but what do you expect to happen in response to the ICC's action.

The ICC is trying to set a precedent that the US views as against its interests.

Go ahead and poke the bear.

All UN member states are de facto part of the ICJ. If you have a valid claim against a nation, the proper place to pursue that is the ICJ.

Hate what the US and Israel are doing or not, what the ICC is doing here is entirely political posturing and theater.

The US withdrew its signature all the way back in 2002, the same year the ICC came into being.

It's only "their job" where they have jurisdiction.

This is like Ofcom trying to require overseas companies/providers to enforce the Online Safety Act.

The ICC doesn't even automatically have jurisdiction of signatory nations either -- it's only when that nation fails to actively pursue prosecutions in their own courts.

The broker ones are kinda big scammers though, from what I remember.

Every craigslist apartment I ever found was sketchy as hell.

We're literally talking about an "X but in Rust" project already...

Irish people making small talk is practically a competitive sport.

It's not the only thing going anymore, but also people have orders of magnitude more choices. That's the thing that's missing today. Nothing is "dead", there's just too much competition now.

Honestly the aforementioned games have had much more staying power than more recent multiplayer games. And they're mostly played by old men like me.

They're just all single player focused.

I feel like half your post is dancing around not saying this.

Also VisualEditor sucks if you've never used VisualEditor before and sucks even more for anything complicated. This is the kind of tonedeafness non-technical users get to their feedback all the time.