RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117536126336248330

Seriously though, I cannot believe how big this thing has become.

Getting closer to 600 feeders around the world, 350k messages reviewed an hour, rewritten in python to keep up, load balancers, replicated databases, an api gateway, a WAF with rate limiting, auth, 8 lambda functions, a mastodon instance, used by journalists as a primary source on multiple occasions - all started a couple of years ago with a raspberry pi and a bash script.

let this be a lesson to you all: your hobbies will become critical infrastructure, plan accordingly