Well, while engineers are getting paid $100K/yr to post #HugOps, I know someone in HFT and their dashboard uses the Fastly service, so this has had a huge impact on them for sure.
Flag and downvote all you want, you know this is true.
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I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer. They're both pretty privileged jobs and HFT is not known for having tons of benefits to society
> I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer.
Engineers are paid because their companies have customers. The it is pure madness that #hugops is the thing. I sincerely hope that Fastly's customers wack it $$ wise so hard that it actually affects #hugops engineering culture.
> I suspect you'll have trouble convincing a forum of primarily engineers that a high frequency trader is more worthy of sympathy than an engineer.
At least HFT traders don't get paid to spy on their own customers with trackers littered everywhere, I find that very unethical that engineers get paid to even do that sort of thing, and every damn website has these trackers because engineers put them there.
> They're both pretty privileged jobs and HFT is not known for having tons of benefits to society
So HFT firms don't have their own foundations and grants to give to charities and organisations then?
And ignore the pre-agreed SLA targets and compensation for not meeting those targets that's in the contract they signed right? If you're going to say you're losing $X/minute of downtime, then either deal with it, architect around it, or negotiate the necessary SLA and compensation.
It's not me you should be telling this to though, if you know someone at Fastly, perhaps you should reminding them that.
I expect huge clients to be knocking on Fastly's door lining up for answers because of this.