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> I've not actually seen an AZ go down in isolation

Counterpoint: I have. Maybe not completely down, but degraded, or out of capacity on an instance type, or some other silly issue that caused an AZ drain. It happens.

Maybe you could save that one-shotted code into a library of some sort...?

> socket.io is probably one of the most unnecessary libraries on this planet. Websockets are already as simple as possible.

Eh... While I agree that socket.io is one of those libraries you could probably "write" in an afternoon, and Websockets are simple, there are a couple of things that are kinda painful to rewrite time after time:

  - keepalives to detect dead sockets
  - reconnection logic with backoff
  - ability to switch to long-polling for weird environments
  - basic multiplexing/namespacing

Not that I'm privy to your mind, but it probably was tesseract (and this is my exact experience too...although for me it was about 12 years ago).

> Sure, but AFAIK S3’s multi-region capabilities are quite far behind GCS’s.

Entirely different claim.

> This makes Google the only major cloud that has low-latency single-zone object storage, standard regional object storage,

Absurd claim. S3 Express launched last year.

Of course not. Gemini can summarize it for you.

> but are they absolutely prohibited from work of any kind?

Generally yes.

But you can have on-campus jobs to supplement your income, and there are at least two programs (CPT and OPT) that let you get approval for limited-term employment in your area of study. CPT also requires university approval.

> From the chat logs example in your article: how do you cope with a requirement such as "I as a user want to see all my latest thread activity in one place, across all my chat rooms?"

create a copy, for example

> My feeling is that most such diagrams are used for purely aesthetic purposes. They break up dense text and add some color and variety to a document.

Not true. Many folks are visual learners. And if you're experienced enough, you can pick up the gist of the text from a quick glance at a good diagram, figure out the "shady" areas, and then dive into the text for details.

middle name -- are you kidding me, of course. other than that, i wouldn't sweat it too much -- maybe just drop the recruiter a line saying "hey just fyi..." right before you sign the offer.

Shout out to my dawg Satyajit Ray