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Welcome to this week’s edition of DevOps’ish where we cover Dev, Ops, and all the ish in between. Department of Choice Concepts I love the idea of dumping XML and JSON for HTML 5. Despite having to block people trying to pick fights on Twitter, this idea has been pretty well received. I would love to see the frustrations of JSON cast aside for something less syntactically challenging and more human readable. Department of Happy Little Clouds Ryan Scott Brown might have beat Amazon to the punch but AWS has launched a region in Canada! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 The general consensus is if a company that is doing business in Canada they are likely going to be diving head first into this AWS region. Canadian privacy laws make sure a lot of Canadian PII does not leave the county. Speaking of Amazon and privacy… A developer interviewing at Amazon had a rather unusual experience taking a proctored test. He ended up terminating the interview early and then as the proctor was unable to clean things up on the dev’s machine the dev terminated the termination. “The normalization of privacy violation has never felt more real.” ...