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Why is this better than the scripting environment in other CAD systems? I’m particular, I looked a bit at https://openscad.org/ previously, though didn’t make much headway modeling the thing I wanted.

Why is a language-level approach better than just an API in an existing, popular language?

Maybe it’s time to properly erase and eBay my box of old HDDs?

…nope, still only $30 shipped for a refurbished 1TB WD or Seagate drive.

There’s a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:

due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.

That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.