# ![@rbranson Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::5264791.png) @rbranson ricky b

ricky b posts on X about this is, major, lambda, up to the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::5264791/interactions)
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- [--] Week [------] +2,975%
- [--] Month [------] +2,545%
- [--] Months [-------] -96%
- [--] Year [---------] +134%

### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::5264791/posts_active)
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- [--] Week [--] +400%
- [--] Month [--] +67%
- [--] Months [--] -25%
- [--] Year [--] -4.80%

### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::5264791/followers)
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- [--] Week [------] +0.77%
- [--] Month [------] +0.62%
- [--] Months [------] -16%
- [--] Year [------] -13%

### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::5264791/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  8.41% [stocks](/list/stocks)  3.74% [finance](/list/finance)  2.8% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  2.8% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  0.93%

**Social topic influence**
[this is](/topic/this-is) 7.48%, [major](/topic/major) 2.8%, [lambda](/topic/lambda) #184, [up to](/topic/up-to) 1.87%, [staff](/topic/staff) 1.87%, [fit](/topic/fit) 1.87%, [twitter](/topic/twitter) 1.87%, [longterm](/topic/longterm) 1.87%, [character](/topic/character) 1.87%, [magic](/topic/magic) 1.87%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@growingdaniel](/creator/undefined) [@llmjunky](/creator/undefined) [@lincoln_osis](/creator/undefined) [@diptanu](/creator/undefined) [@planetscaledata](/creator/undefined) [@lincolnosis](/creator/undefined) [@fixmyvibeapp](/creator/undefined) [@rbransonsharingsqlitedatabasesacrosscontainersissurprisinglybrilliantbacb8d753054](/creator/undefined) [@rbranson10thingsihateaboutpostgresql20dbab8c2791](/creator/undefined) [@thechosenberg](/creator/undefined) [@kthorjensen](/creator/undefined) [@rikki9501](/creator/undefined) [@assbeaters](/creator/undefined) [@hellocaitlin](/creator/undefined) [@jfflyn](/creator/undefined) [@nullferatu](/creator/undefined) [@jodavaho](/creator/undefined) [@justlikethepoet](/creator/undefined) [@pavelsnajdr](/creator/undefined) [@adamsmall](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (STX)](/topic/seagate) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL)](/topic/dell)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"i asked codex to generate a video based on how i treat it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2021561003968958729)  2026-02-11T12:24Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@Lincoln_Osis 👍"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2022173342376374389)  2026-02-13T04:57Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@FixMyVibeApp if that is what ensures AGI benefits all of humanity so be it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2022179011724726627)  2026-02-13T05:20Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@diptanu 10-20s is too slow even. agents need lambda latency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2022309366884634718)  2026-02-13T13:58Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"i got bulled into posting this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2022904173151580388)  2026-02-15T05:21Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@diptanu not saying lambda is the solution but agents need isolated scratchpad environments that are cheap and are a tool call away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2022394957043212745)  2026-02-13T19:38Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"openai cafe might have the best slice in sf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2022131826379436438)  2026-02-13T02:12Z 15.3K followers, 57.2K engagements


"@growing_daniel wow i got likemogged in front of my wifoid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/2023154253653778806)  2026-02-15T21:55Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"sfpd has evacuated a blue bottle and the physiognomy is off the charts accurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1912603040827514956)  2025-04-16T20:24Z 15.3K followers, 114.3K engagements


"when the "full stack developer" who just discovered microservices leaves the team and its just u"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/774671973615935489)  2016-09-10T18:12Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"I co-wrote this piece on allocation efficiency in Go. Please tell me what you think and if we missed something big https://segment.com/blog/allocation-efficiency-in-high-performance-go-services/ https://segment.com/blog/allocation-efficiency-in-high-performance-go-services/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/910223037647151104)  2017-09-19T19:24Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Sharing SQLite databases across containers is surprisingly brilliant. https://medium.com/@rbranson/sharing-sqlite-databases-across-containers-is-surprisingly-brilliant-bacb8d753054 https://medium.com/@rbranson/sharing-sqlite-databases-across-containers-is-surprisingly-brilliant-bacb8d753054"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1214648084761739266)  2020-01-07T20:40Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Just look at this cursed stock photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1215463229163327488)  2020-01-10T02:39Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"PostgreSQL really is the world's best database but isn't perfect. https://medium.com/@rbranson/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791 https://medium.com/@rbranson/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1246232015159975936)  2020-04-04T00:24Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"don't do a monorepo unless you plan on actually making time to deal with monorepo-specific problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1250219221830602752)  2020-04-15T00:27Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"6/ It's tempting to get cajoled into not doing this or ditching it by the rest of the cap table some of whom see alumni as "deserters" or "unbelievers" undeserving of a windfall but the reality is that these sorts of restrictions just amplify privilege"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1315731265841111040)  2020-10-12T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"8/ They can choose to leave bad bosses. They can choose to leave unethical companies. They can take unpaid leave to care for family members. They can choose to work on things that are fulfilling and empowering not only for the paycheck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1315731267220955136)  2020-10-12T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"I've always had a hard time taking the whole "agile" movement seriously given that in my experience velocity and agility have SO MUCH MORE to do with the software's architecture than how work is planned. 1/7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1329871614360526848)  2020-11-20T19:37Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Well I have to say the @planetscaledata beta launch day went SLIGHTLY better than anticipated. 🤯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1394815681942593537)  2021-05-19T00:42Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Chia has grown almost [--] exabyte (974PiB) in the last [--] hours. The scale of this is hard to comprehend. Creating plots at this rate burns up the equivalent of one 1TB Samsung Evo SSD every [--] seconds. An exabyte is [------] 8TB drives or $25000000 in Seagate USB drives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1397598281975230464)  2021-05-26T16:59Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"$559 million worth of Chia's currency (XCH) has been farmed so at this point Chia likely is a net economic negative just based purely on a few surface-level metrics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1397599223630073856)  2021-05-26T17:03Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"no kid is thinking they want to grow up to "facilitate organizational alignment" and yet here we all are truly amazing work comrades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1425608879467941896)  2021-08-12T00:03Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"when you see all [--] at once you know you already got covid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1434613920715706375)  2021-09-05T20:26Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"the quarterly planning model where everyone stops and pretends to plans an entire quarter of work all at the same time is one of the greatest business scams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1438237604768456707)  2021-09-15T20:25Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"one does not simply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1448724569322246148)  2021-10-14T18:57Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"one of the funniest things ive ever heard is that bartenders in sf call techbros backpacks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1456683259400646659)  2021-11-05T18:02Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Over the year I've been at @planetscaledata developers have consistently asked us the question: "when are you going to support PostgreSQL" The answer: We aren't. That's it. But why 🧵 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1461031251691773953)  2021-11-17T17:59Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"We're cancelling each other over database takes today. Post your cancellable database take"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1512444259143614466)  2022-04-08T14:56Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"the new cohort will never know the glory of the 2010s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1522627554925891584)  2022-05-06T17:21Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"what amazon kept secret until now: this is a photo of EBS in us-east-1c"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1548043376217337857)  2022-07-15T20:34Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"miami is a lie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1560505791903281152)  2022-08-19T05:55Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"when u were living the good life as a staff+ engineer and u get promoted into management"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1568441283378806787)  2022-09-10T03:28Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"where all the staff+ homies at"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1572608782102040579)  2022-09-21T15:28Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"oh. seems legit then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1608965055135244288)  2022-12-30T23:15Z 15.3K followers, 28.7K engagements


"apparently svb has $1.1B in outstanding loans for "premium wine""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1634271668205146112)  2023-03-10T19:15Z 15.3K followers, 63.1K engagements


"this thing is so cursed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1636122920480313344)  2023-03-15T21:51Z 15.3K followers, 34.6K engagements


"@thechosenberg it does matter to extremely insecure small peepee guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1684207847901388800)  2023-07-26T14:23Z 15.3K followers, 32.1K engagements


"You've been chosen to receive a million dollars but you have to spend a month locked in a room with one of these guys. Who do you choose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1699905370016358891)  2023-09-07T21:59Z 15.3K followers, 87.3K engagements


"@kthorjensen 93/7 ground beef for that dry leather mouthfeel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729691186237968607)  2023-11-29T02:38Z 15.3K followers, 32.4K engagements


"even more weary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729903519367623028)  2023-11-29T16:41Z 15.3K followers, 88.3K engagements


""this kubernetes administrator works [--] hour days and hasn't taken a shower in a month hasn't left the office in days. at this point they are just typing kubectl with random strings""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729905199123460338)  2023-11-29T16:48Z 15.3K followers, 88.8K engagements


""that is NOT weary enough she should look like a SHELL of herself""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729907292668358839)  2023-11-29T16:56Z 15.3K followers, 87.3K engagements


""even more tired even more junk piled everywhere even less human looking""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729912170908152077)  2023-11-29T17:16Z 15.3K followers, 85.5K engagements


""she has begun to merge with the machine in a fit of desperation to remain alive as she administers this kubernetes deployment""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729912972519297492)  2023-11-29T17:19Z 15.3K followers, 84K engagements


""she has further merged with the machine. she no longer needs a keyboard. her brain is directly jacked into the kubernetes apiserver.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729918232902168773)  2023-11-29T17:40Z 15.3K followers, 82.6K engagements


""she continues to merge into the machine. she can now administer millions of kubernetes clusters. she has become kubectl controller of clusters.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729920084968403051)  2023-11-29T17:47Z 15.3K followers, 78.2K engagements


"@growing_daniel i've been a customer for [--] years and now this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1760751721616494638)  2024-02-22T19:41Z 15.3K followers, 327K engagements


"this is basically what its like to be a FAANG employee vesting RSUs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1773428599703638165)  2024-03-28T19:15Z 15.3K followers, 42.4K engagements


"@growing_daniel same steve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1788384189416644694)  2024-05-09T01:43Z 15.3K followers, 124.6K engagements


"@growing_daniel @rikki9501 my dudes in profile"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1788395294272708757)  2024-05-09T02:27Z 15.3K followers, 33.3K engagements


"@growing_daniel this is what i cited when i killed my wifes children fathered by other males"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1826413357013901416)  2024-08-22T00:17Z 15.3K followers, 33.3K engagements


"@ass_beaters it's actually surprising when you see a dodge ram not being driven like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1841579112391180295)  2024-10-02T20:40Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@hello__caitlin 99% of people heard the song once and cancelled their spotify subscription"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1864367700375687340)  2024-12-04T17:54Z 15.3K followers, 184.6K engagements


"i would go all in shorting this guy if i could"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1882964653409735039)  2025-01-25T01:32Z 15.3K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Just saved a customer $500000 a year by moving them from GCP to this 4U server in my garage lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1898082674402873771)  2025-03-07T18:45Z 15.3K followers, 1.5M engagements


"@jf_flyn brill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1898086037383213552)  2025-03-07T18:59Z 15.3K followers, 87.9K engagements


"@nullferatu i only fuck with 9s bro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1898149194130772378)  2025-03-07T23:10Z 15.3K followers, 74.3K engagements


"@jodavaho false. my power has never gone out actually. 100% uptime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1898149360241983907)  2025-03-07T23:10Z 15.3K followers, 36K engagements


"@justlikethepoet they didnt ask questions. they just liked the price. are you a cop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1898159723301794044)  2025-03-07T23:51Z 15.3K followers, 30.7K engagements


"@PavelSnajdr not worried. i've got top men"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1898166617479299265)  2025-03-08T00:19Z 15.3K followers, 82.9K engagements


"@adamsmall this guy fucks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1898166668167463103)  2025-03-08T00:19Z 15.3K followers, 55.6K engagements


"@WitCelebs bro dont tell ok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1898288745071493218)  2025-03-08T08:24Z 15.3K followers, 13.4K engagements


"@RizomaSchool based and italianatepilled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1913976752990458320)  2025-04-20T15:23Z 15.3K followers, 12.5K engagements


"last night i met a guy that pronounces DNS as Dennis 😳"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1928817833493831681)  2025-05-31T14:16Z 15.3K followers, 61.7K engagements


"@samlambert oh yeah name [--] fine people building incredible things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1976736640812171468)  2025-10-10T19:48Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"when u run a terraform command"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/744634444380680193)  2016-06-19T20:54Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"This is quite possibly the best HN comment of all time. 💯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/760675697601896448)  2016-08-03T03:16Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Alexa turn on S3 in us-east-1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/836669259505790976)  2017-02-28T20:07Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Never forget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/962185432535453696)  2018-02-10T04:44Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"100% compatible thoughts: 1) JavaScript is a garbage PL 2) It is worth being proficient at JavaScript 3) Frontend is its own highly respectable field not a stepping stone to more hardcore pursuits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1001667528450428928)  2018-05-30T03:32Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"OH: server farm to database table"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1004827827030540288)  2018-06-07T20:49Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"A shitty part about getting older is no longer being able to hold strong convictions. This makes it hard to be a Twitter thought leader. Like I'd love to be a "huge monorepo advocate" or a "major serverless shill" but all I can think of are the downsides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1123640667215806465)  2019-05-01T17:29Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Queues are bad but software developers love them. You'd think they would magically fix any overload or failure problem. But they don't and bring with them a bunch of their own problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1131989746643742721)  2019-05-24T18:26Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"The thing that nobody talks about with the whole sidecar pattern is how much CPU it burns. If you're moving a lot of data in/out through the proxies it can be non-trivial. Adding 10-15% to your compute budget is a serious ask"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1171478494703845376)  2019-09-10T17:40Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Junior engineers: focus on improving by learning documented best practices Mid-level engineers: hones skills watching and learning from their colleagues Senior engineers: god damnit what the fuck does this JIRA even mean who the fuck told the customer we would do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1220004245736263680)  2020-01-22T15:24Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Its [--] times more expensive to send 1TB of data out of Amazon EC2 than it is to buy a 1TB drive from Amazon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1236188669221863424)  2020-03-07T07:15Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Be very skeptical when you read statements like "40-70% of the US population will be infected over the next 12-18 months" because that's just not the way reputable scientists talk about forecasts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1238331790235815936)  2020-03-13T05:11Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"There are two buried leads in the Segment/Twilio news: 1) This is the biggest YC acquisition by a large margin. Cruise was next at $1B. 2) The company was setup so that everyone on the team shared in this win including alumni. Let's expand on this. 1/11"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1315731261772582912)  2020-10-12T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"2/ Point #2 was long-term thinking that started many years ago when they eliminated the post-employment exercise time limit (typically [--] days) from their employee option agreements. This is *KEY* https://x.com/calvinfo/status/622550129518612481 @hunterwalk yup we've started doing this at Segment https://x.com/calvinfo/status/622550129518612481 @hunterwalk yup we've started doing this at Segment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1315731262561112064)  2020-10-12T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"4/ Instead of only those who were already well-off who could put the cash up to exercise becoming *even richer* this changed the lives of a substantial number of households. Perhaps 100s have dramatically increased financial freedom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1315731264347893760)  2020-10-12T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"5/ This speaks to the incredible character and long-term thinking of the founding team. Major key: they now have a whole roster of talented folks who they can call on for the rest of their careers. These folks can trust that they'll be taken care of. Very powerful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1315731265052577792)  2020-10-12T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"10/ @holman has compiled a dope list of startups with extended exercise windows. You should work for one. It says a lot about the character of its leadership. https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1315731268630265856)  2020-10-12T19:09Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"After [--] and a half incredible years (and an exit) Im closing out my time at @segment soon. Next month Im joining engineering at @planetscaledata. I quickly became enamored by the team and the vision and couldnt let this one pass. 🥂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1318212465298059267)  2020-10-19T15:28Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"engineering management is actually just spending your entire day pretending to understand things that you are embarrassed you didn't already know about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1354465304575807488)  2021-01-27T16:24Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"harsh but fair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1369909101900095489)  2021-03-11T07:12Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"engineering managers:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1642193684358893569)  2023-04-01T15:54Z 15.3K followers, 64.8K engagements


"@mscccc i know we're just having fun here but a lot of this is because ppl often don't differentiate between magic values (meaning can't be extracted contextually) and context-explained constants (like an inline SQL query)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1678857485636243456)  2023-07-11T20:03Z 15.3K followers, 27.5K engagements


"@growing_daniel the worst part of steve jobs' legacy is tech CEOs thinking they should do product keynotes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1707419762278781043)  2023-09-28T15:39Z 15.3K followers, 319.6K engagements


"For every [--] likes this gets I'll ask ChatGPT to make this Kubernetes Administrator a bit more weary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729902008747069818)  2023-11-29T16:35Z 15.3K followers, 1.3M engagements


""she further ascends. her consciousness is now fully integrated into the machine. her corporeal being has long been discarded. society no longer even thinks of kubernetes but it is there. she is there. administering the systems.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729921390097396193)  2023-11-29T17:52Z 15.3K followers, 74.8K engagements


""she is worshipped as a deity. her followers only know the symbol of the kubernetes logo but have no concept of kubernetes as a concrete concept. they do know they would be relegated to a life of hard labor manually entering kubectl commands without her.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1729932484106973601)  2023-11-29T18:36Z 15.3K followers, 75K engagements


"when someone says my API is too hard to understand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1742082368054403502)  2024-01-02T07:16Z 15.3K followers, 299.2K engagements


"people who have never been inside a datacenter before: yeah the cloud is overpriced you can just buy servers from dell me: ok so if i add a perc h810 to my 730xd to wire it to an md1200 using sff-8088 cables can i add [--] SATA disks as JBOD passthrough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1768335675534016947)  2024-03-14T17:57Z 15.3K followers, 51.1K engagements


"yesterday aws launched support for appending to objects to S3. given the limitations there are some skeptics but i think it's going to lead to a major shift in cloud architectures. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-append-data-object/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-append-data-object/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1860118476389777651)  2024-11-23T00:29Z 15.3K followers, 43.8K engagements


"sometimes there's a man well he's the man for his time and place. he fits right in there. and that's this dude in san francisco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1908596435593162799)  2025-04-05T19:03Z 15.3K followers, 132.4K engagements


"anyone who thinks parsing sql is expensive or problematic has no idea what theyre talking about. an imbecile of the highest order. scroll to the end for the punchline my team at @planetscale maintains the vitess sql parser and distributed query planner. we know this space. the parsing is the cheapest part. its a single string traversal and the code and data can fit into L2. planning is typically the most expensive part. it requires repetitive tree traversals and accesses memory scattered randomly. its essentially trying to solve a puzzle every time. assuming data is cached in memory execution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1917760098333843858)  2025-05-01T01:56Z 15.3K followers, 18.8K engagements


"dudes will hate on astrology and then send a naval tweet a few minutes later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1927497657498349962)  2025-05-27T22:50Z 15.3K followers, 24.2K engagements


"@soychotic it burns all your battery animating the background and is just Gemma 2B with a prompt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/1962195703591215281)  2025-08-31T16:48Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The dominance of open office spaces in tech despite overwhelming evidence they are bad really puts the "science" in "computer science.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/764235669094793216)  2016-08-12T23:02Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"It's hard to overstate how important this lesson is "there is no magic just software" via @ferlatte"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/791124050957348864)  2016-10-26T03:47Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"You either die an engineer or live long enough to do biz dev"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/794785329005760512)  2016-11-05T06:16Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements


"The PTSD stack: PagerDuty Twitter Slack Datadog"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rbranson/status/979775215822553089)  2018-03-30T17:39Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements

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