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If you're an US citizen, I would understand why. If you're from elsewhere, looking at how both countries deal with foreign policies, perhaps the answer requires some serious reflection.

That would be really helpful. At the company I'm working for, we are transitioning to Keycloak, and one question that I have no answer for yet is how to standardize deployments across environments. Ideally, I would love to apply DevOps best practices, and try to script the provisioning of as many components as I can (clients, flows, etc.), avoiding config drift between environments. The only solution I found out for now is configuring the realm as I like and exporting it into JSON through the admin UI, placing the resulting file in the appropriate directory, and supplying the --import-realm flag at startup. That seems very fragile.

By any chance, is that Terraform open sourced somewhere? It's for a friend :)

It will always respond "it works on my local machine".

Here's another interesting excerpt, from Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to death":

As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

The book was released on 1985, and its main premise is that the mass-media has a damaging effect in our capacities to understand and elaborate rational arguments. In his opinion, TV was their age soma. I wonder what he would think today...

I'm not too sure about that... Just to clarify, I'm referring to the burst limit, not the concurrency one.

Lambda scales well... until it does not. If your traffic pattern is very spiky and unpredictable, the burst limit can be a real pain in the neck. It ranges between 500 and 3.000 Lambda instances, depending on the region, and when that threshold is reached it can only spin up 500 more each minute. This is sufficient in most cases, indeed, but it's important to be aware of the implications of this limitation before believing that you can throw anything at Lambda and it'll just scale up to accommodate any workload.

Interestingly enough, the .top domain gives what it promises: it's at the top of the worst performing TLDs list

Just look for another job, don't even waste a single second of your life considering that offer. I worked for a company that would allow us working from home some days a week, and we even had some remote colleagues. At some point, our manager made us install one of those applications, which denoted he didn't trust us anymore. The app worked exactly as you say, and it was frustrating and infuriating at the same time. It would "measure" your productivity based on the mouse and keyboard activity, giving ridiculous results like a 20% or 30% of effective time worked. Surely a monkey banging on the keyboard would have a much better score, but that's not what developers get paid for. Not only so, but I had the perception that the app had a special preference for taking screenshots when I was on Slack or writing an email, which feels like an utter violation of privacy. Obviously, most of us either left the company or refused to use the tracking software. Be conscious of the value you can provide and look for someone that judges your work by your output, not by the number of keystrokes you do a day.

Please elaborate. I'm not questioning what you say is true, but I'm interested in a tool like this one and would love to know more before choosing one or another.

A strictly typed pure functional language that generates JavaScript. That, along with a clever compiler, makes them claim that apps built with Elm don't have runtime exceptions.