I get that a lot of people see Slack as a panacea for all communications, but too often it ends up a dumping ground for anything and everything for which searches might not be as effective over time. Also, that data in Slack can and will be a liability risk to you when it comes to data privacy, compliance, and any litigation hold requests. Do understand that larger organizations (especially FAANG) will purge slack conversation data after a certain period of time for these reasons.
Also, it's worth noting that American cities demolished good infrastructure (for bikes, pedestrians, and transit) to make way for the veiled promises Big Auto and Big Oil. The transition to car dependence in America was a willful and deliberate act, albeit heavily influenced by lobbying and propaganda by auto and oil industries.
Disclaimer: I worked for a payment processor that handled a large portion of adult site traffic.
Payment processors categorize porn sites as a high-risk businesses because of the higher likelihood of chargebacks from customers who spot such a transaction on their statement. The processing, upfront, and recurring fees are higher than normal merchants to factor in this risk, and one or more card networks have explicit rules on which content is acceptable for purchase (guided mostly by laws against bestiality and the scenarios in which urine and feces are presented).
I don't know if you've actually been to their blog recently, but Percona's community includes NoSQL as they maintain their own distro of MongoDB--similar in spirit to their MySQL and PostgreSQL offerings.
I think it's worthwhile to look more into GCP's multi-region bucket implementation and how nice it is. It pretty much removes the need to explicitly set up cross-region replication of objects and offers a single endpoint from which to serve objects in the nearest/most available region.
> And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
The problem was that it was moved from near the top to being near the bottom (though it's own paragraph). Sadly there were lots of very inaccurate headlines like this:
> Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct
Tom Scott did a nice video [1] on IEX's setup with 38 miles of fiber to add enough latency as a mechanism of fairness. Purportedly, this benefits all exchanges after it was successfully deployed. It seems like the incentives are not there for larger, more established exchanges to implement such blanket latency. So, firms like GS see a benefit to this kind of investment.
Finally, I feel DHH's article on group chat still provides valid criticisms and recommendations to retain your sanity and prevent the feeling of FOMO: https://signalvnoise.com/svn3/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat...