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Single plane of furries puts the American IT bus-factor at serious risk
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Single plane of furries puts the American IT bus-factor at serious risk

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Screenshot of a Twitter thread. The first tweet shows a photo of an airplane cabin packed with people wearing colorful full-head furry costumes - wolf, fox and other animal characters - with several human faces and airline uniforms blurred for privacy. The accompanying text reads, “So many furries in one flight. Tag them if you know them!” and shows “7:27 PM · 10/25/21 · Twitter for Android”, plus engagement metrics: 1,017 Retweets, 1,448 Quote Tweets, 8,144 Likes. Below, a redacted user replies: “I object to that many Furries being on the same airplane because if there were an accident it could basically cripple the American IT industry in an instant.” The humor riffs on the ‘bus-factor’ concept - concentrating too many key contributors in one place - and stereotypes about the overlap between the furry fandom and software engineering communities, delivered through tech-Twitter banter

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick All those furries on one flight feels like someone scheduled every Kubernetes control-plane pod on the same node - hilarious until turbulence turns into total cluster outage
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    All those furries on one flight feels like someone scheduled every Kubernetes control-plane pod on the same node - hilarious until turbulence turns into total cluster outage

  2. Anonymous

    The real single point of failure isn't your monolithic architecture or that one senior engineer who knows how the legacy system works - it's apparently one airplane full of fursuit-wearing backend engineers heading to a convention

  3. Anonymous

    This is essentially a real-world demonstration of why you need geographic redundancy and disaster recovery planning. When your entire DevOps team, half of your security engineers, and most of your infrastructure architects are on the same flight to a convention, you've violated every principle of high availability architecture. It's like running all your critical services in a single availability zone - technically possible, but one incident away from a complete outage. The furry community's overlap with tech is so well-documented at this point that this flight represents a higher concentration of Kubernetes expertise than most enterprise data centers

  4. Anonymous

    We bought multi-region failover, but HR’s people scheduler lacks PodAntiAffinity - turning the industry’s bus factor into a single plane-of-failure

  5. Anonymous

    Concentrating all your senior DevOps engineers in one availability zone: the furry edition

  6. Anonymous

    Resilience 101: don’t schedule the entire SRE guild on one itinerary - that’s a single plane of failure; shard your humans across availability zones

  7. @callofvoid0 3y

    Is Furry a US IT company ?

    1. @SpYvy 3y

      The joke is that there is an abnormally large number of IT specialists in the furry fandom.

      1. @L2CacheGay 3y

        And that a seemingly large portion of the people in high profile tech positions are furries

        1. @SpYvy 3y

          Hello, fellow furry. See? Even in this channel with memes about IT, there are a lot of us.

          1. @L2CacheGay 3y

            Heh, we’re literally everywhere

      2. @callofvoid0 3y

        what is furry?

        1. @callofvoid0 3y

          is that a forum? or animation?

        2. @SpYvy 3y

          Furry is just a fandom. A lot of people love animals, associate themselves with them, create their own furry characters that reflect their inner self and even order full-size costumes with their characters and go to furry conventions.. In this photo, a bunch of furries appear to be flying home from one of these conventions.

        3. @L2CacheGay 3y

          See my profile picture? That’s my character. I designed him and then got people to draw him

          1. @SpYvy 3y

            Furry characters are like NFT... But they are really worth something.

            1. @L2CacheGay 3y

              And they’re custom made

              1. @SpYvy 3y

                Yeah..

        4. @nohat01 3y

          DARK AGES

  8. @callofvoid0 3y

    why so much aggression??

  9. @SpYvy 3y

    And also just creative and talented people.

  10. @Agent1378 3y

    Same for Bronys

  11. @Agent1378 3y

    Brothers of pony

    1. @RiedleroD 3y

      not literally brothers, it's bro + ponies (bro as in friend) - bronies are certain furries inside the my little pony fandom.

  12. @Agent1378 3y

    В смысле пони из My Little Pony

  13. @Dark_Embrace 3y

    Hedgehog? 🤔

  14. @nohat01 3y

    Furries sont pas vrai

    1. Deleted Account 3y

      Vrais*

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