"the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media." hmm... Elon Musk was a software engineer in the beginning, you know?

The second question is my question as well. Because K8s has failed to deliver as a true "platform". i.e Application teams still have to care about infrastructure. That statement is true even for the "managed K8s" by cloud providers. But what's the alternative? We are stuck.

Fargate

It should try to include the waiting time at signal lights when calculating driving time.

I was questioned by HR hiring manager for not having "enough" experience in K8s. That company was IBM.

How about profit sharing. If you make money by selling my data, I should get a cut.

How about beating Slack first? Slack charges more.

I don't like Slack that much, as a matter of fact I try to avoid it as much as I can, still I must admit is a far more comprehensive service for communicating with a team compared to Zoom, which essentially is just a video chat. So the price difference seems quite reasonable to me.

How about only showing friends feed and letting the user decide what to filter out?