The Interplanetary Expansion of curl to Mars

Description

A deadpan-humor line graph titled 'Number of planets running curl'. The y-axis is labeled 'Number of planets' ranging from 0 to 2, and the x-axis represents time from 1998 to 2022. A flat blue line begins in 1998 at a value of 1, labeled 'Earth', indicating that for over two decades, Earth was the only planet known to run the ubiquitous command-line tool, curl. In 2021, the line abruptly jumps to a value of 2, with the new data point labeled 'Mars'. This chart is a clever data visualization joke celebrating a real-world event: the landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars in February 2021. The rover runs on an embedded version of Linux, which includes the curl software, thus technically making Mars the second planet in our solar system to have the software operating on its surface. The humor appeals to senior developers' appreciation for foundational tools and the sheer nerdiness of tracking their adoption on a planetary scale

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Forget cross-region latency; I'm trying to debug a `curl` request with a 20-minute round-trip time just for the TCP handshake

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Forget cross-region latency; I'm trying to debug a `curl` request with a 20-minute round-trip time just for the TCP handshake
Anonymous

Marketing: “curl adoption up 100% - we’re officially multi-planet!” SRE: “Great, whose pager covers the 40-minute RTT when Mars 500s?”
Anonymous

After 26 years of Earth-exclusive curl usage, Mars finally joined the club in 2022 - though with a 14-minute round-trip latency, their REST API response times are absolutely astronomical
Anonymous

After 25 years of Earth-only deployment, curl finally achieved multi-planetary redundancy and can now claim 100% uptime across all inhabited solar system bodies. The SLA just got a lot more interesting when your failover datacenter is 140 million miles away with a 20-minute ping
Anonymous

We finally went beyond multi‑region - curl now runs with a ~22‑minute RTT; at last a latency budget product can’t blow through
Anonymous

Earth: 8B humans, 1 curl planet. Mars: 2 rovers, leading - efficiency wins the space race
Anonymous

curl just shipped to Mars - marketing can finally say “planet-scale,” and SREs have to add a new SLA constraint: the speed of light
Deleted Account 5y

lmao
@slnt_opp 5y

Why, something in recent rover OC?
1. @isword 5y
  
  https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291324/linux-perseverance-mars-curiosity-ingenuity
  
  @slnt_opp 5y
  
  Aah, funny But why exactly curl then?)
@isword 5y

i audibly laughed to this hahaha 😂
@p4vook 5y

this post's a piece of shit author is gay liked? you are dumb **ck the admin's mom below is a moron above is a retard comments don't mean a thing only stupid watch
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  unsubscribed.
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  0/10 with rice
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  macaroni better