Chevre, this week’s parsha is Noah (נֹחַ). There are so many things we can talk about this week. The world was wiped clean and started over by the flood. Noah was told to build the ark and put all the animals inside to save them. The simple comparison is deleting a CloudFormation template and redeploying a workload from scratch. We do this from time to time for various reasons, like finding a bug. Do folks think that the world being filled with robbery (or other bad things) is a bug?
After they get back to dry land, Noah plants a vineyard. I heard this week this is the first time we see a vineyard being created. So is Noah’s over indulgence in wine because he didn’t know? Observability in both workloads and especially costs are important. I have a project that I built to try to help save people from unexpected costs.
After the whole story of Noah, we have a list of lineage and then we have the Tower of Babel. It seems that the lesson wasn’t learned from the destruction of the world and folks were not being nice to each other again. This makes me think that mankind is in an iterative process. Just as we deploy workloads, find bugs and upgrade or redeploy, mankind is constantly finding problems and trying to work toward a better situation or planet. Seeing what is happening around me here now, it becomes clear that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
Our hope is that our neighbors will eventually decide they want to live with us peacefully. For now, it is clear that this is not yet the case. Praying for better times. Shabbat Shalom.
PS - As we are now in November, I’ll be at re:Invent again this year. And, thanks to my son, I will have stickers with the new logo. Happy to distribute them.
