[kalev]

I’m annoyed by the way this is written. The topic is super interesting but the author tried to hard to be funny and being a non-native reader it’s difficult to determine if certain words are technical jargon or trying to be funny.

[romantomjak]

I'm quite the opposite. This style of writing is quite refreshing. It's playful, has enough technical details and is easy to read.

[Dowwie]

I think it succeeded at being funny. tptacek is a Nümad lad.

[tptacek]

I'm mostly just curious about which terms the reader thinks are made up.

[titanomachy]

I particularly liked "Katamari Damacy scheduling", but I would guess that at least some of the cultural references (dilithium crystals, Marcellus Wallace) could be confusing to folks not steeped in a particularly nerdy subset of American-ish culture.

I think if references and jokes are landing for (say) 80% of your target audience then you're doing pretty well.

I liked the article. Interesting approach to scheduling as kind of a market exchange problem. It's cool to see what an infra service can look like when you ditch the constraints and path dependence that led to the "standard" cloud architecture and build something totally new. The user experience seems like multi-tenant Borg, but nimbler.

[lmm]

That particular use of "Kleenex" is an Americanism I had to consciously interpret.

[tptacek]

D'oh, I meant to link Katamari.