Notices by Neil Craig (tdp_org@mastodon.social)

England Vs Argentina last night was *busy*! Easily the busiest ever live event on the BBC (I can't give you streaming stats, sorry).

On my logging pipeline (subset of BBC logs):

- Peak: 2.2M row/s (105GB/s)
- Total: 20.1B rows (16.4TB), 2.7M log files
- 0 write fails
- 0 duplicated rows
- Peak: 1035 Cloud Run containers @ 2x CPU each ∴ 2070 CPU

Best bit is that we did precisely nothing, it all just worked.

#WebStats #WorldCup #BBC

@fesshole Sounds like you have a great cat, so - happy days!

@fesshole *saw

@GossiTheDog Yeah they are, though the delivery chap turned up in a car (and parked on the footpath for no discernible reason).

So 30-40 minutes took over 2 hours and the food was all cold. My £8.50 "pizza" was quite literally the size of a slice of bread.

The JustEat website is sooooo bad.

Think i'm gonna add them to my DNS blocklist. What a shitshow. Definitely never using them again. I could and would have walked there if i'd have know how bad they'd be.

</rant> 🤣

We've never had the big food delivery companies where I live until recently. I wish we still didn't have them.

I ordered food for myself & my son at 7pm. Delivery estimate was 30-40 minutes which was fine.

Nothing arrived by 8pm so I checked & the updated estimate was 8:45pm. Kept an eye on it for 10 minutes or so & the estimate kept *increasing*.

I called the restaurant who said "cancel it on the app, we can't do anything".

JustEast app offers me no such facility. Many links 404.

Bullshit.

@Gargron @EUCommission W TF

"The [London, UK] Metropolitan Police has been blocked from signing a contract worth up to £50m with the US technology firm Palantir, after London's deputy mayor refused to approve the deal...

...It also cited concerns around the firm's values and ethics, although legally this cannot influence a deal refusal."

Good. Palantir can get directly in the bin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp1e11px0o

@ironicbadger Probably a good time to note that whilst 99.5% uptime sounds high, that's nearly 3 hours 40 minutes downtime per month.
https://uptime.is/99.5

@fesshole Might be better to donate it to someone or somewhere rather that wasting it

@fesshole Approved.

A very large CDN supplier emailed us today to say they are having to increase prices because their energy costs have risen up to 2x and servers are now 1.5x the price.

Sounds like AI crap making everything else more expensive, again.

@jtig @GossiTheDog Let's see if JLR agree eh? 🤣🤦🏻♂️

We're recruiting for a new Security Architect role in BBC InfoSec:

**Location**: Remote (within UK)
**Salary range**: £75-85k + solid pension & benefits
**Type**: Permanent
**Closing date**: 2026-02-16

"The BBC reaches over half a billion people online every week. By joining this team you will help keep these systems secure. You’ll regularly collaborate with critical BBC product teams such as iPlayer, Sounds and News..."

It's a great team to work with (I do regularly)

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Information-Security-Architect/27382-en_GB/

@Life_is @dansup I don't work on these apps but spotted this and I know there's a standard error code 413 which is "content too large" so it might be that your video files are bigger than the server allows.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/413

@Gargron Happy birthday! 🎉

@fesshole TBH I'm planning on doing this on the footpath behind our house.
Good on you 🙌

Something I have been meaning to do for years is to make a graph database of hardcore/drum & bass/jungle producers.

When you look into it, the number of individual humans is astonishingly low - especially pre 1995 ish.

For example, Rupert Parkes is known as:
- Photek
- Aquarius
- Studio Pressure
- The Sentinel

Maybe I can string up a CI/CD-driven community-powered knowledgebase.

Anyone interested?

This is what our cats do when they want their dinner now. Both of them come down to my cabin where I work, sit on the decking outside and stare at me until I feed them.

Hustlers. The pair of them.

#Cats #CateOfMastodon

My assistant is learning to operate the mouse.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats

@fesshole We did the same when I worked in a call ("contact" - phone + email +post) centre back in the day.

In fact, I am pretty sure that place ran the British Gas contact centre at
one point.

I worked on the Gillette account (Gillette, Braun & Oral B - same company). No one paid *any* attention to how you answered the phone. Indeed, I successfully convinced Gillette that it was pointless having a long opening spiel for that exact reason. (Also built their first intranet site in pure JS)