The Original Cloud Computing Pioneer
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This meme features a classical painting of the biblical figure Moses, depicted with a long white beard, holding a staff in one hand and two stone tablets inscribed with text in the other, set against a mountainous backdrop. Above the image is the caption: 'So technically Moses is the first man to download files from the cloud using a tablet.' A small watermark with a troll face and the text 't.me/dev_meme' is visible in the bottom right corner. The humor is a clever pun that anachronistically applies modern tech terminology to the biblical story. The 'cloud' refers to God in the heavens, the 'files' are the Ten Commandments, and the 'tablet' is the stone slate. This joke resonates with tech professionals by playfully mapping their everyday jargon onto one of the oldest stories in Western culture, highlighting how terms evolve and take on new meanings
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The latency was high and the UI was literally set in stone, but at least there were no GDPR pop-ups
Moses basically pioneered WORM storage - pulled 10 lines from the “Sinai” bucket onto read-only stone media and made every future change request a theological fork
And he still had better uptime than AWS us-east-1 - forty years in the desert with zero outages on those stone tablets
Moses really pioneered the concept of immutable infrastructure - those stone tablets had zero configuration drift, no version control conflicts, and the ultimate write-once-read-many storage medium. Though I hear the initial sync took 40 days and the error handling involved some pretty dramatic rollback procedures
OG cloud: edge-delivered WORM tablets with ten hardcoded policies, 40-day cold start, and rollback procedure = smash and request re-provision
Original immutable infrastructure: rewriting those tablets demanded divine intervention
Moses shipped the first air-gapped cloud-to-tablet deployment: immutable storage, no versioning, and a rollback plan that involved smashing prod
wow! Insulting of religious people's feelings Comment deleted
you are insulting my freedom of speech feeling Comment deleted
if you are not religious, you can't be offended since you have no human rights Comment deleted
dude wtf Comment deleted
God is dead. Comment deleted
I am going to allow it Comment deleted