Dog-fooding has been described as "The Golden Rule of Platforms"[1] and was apparently part of Jeff Bezos's mandate: "His Big Mandate went something along thes

Dog-fooding has been described as "The Golden Rule of Platforms"[1] and was apparently part of Jeff Bezos's mandate: "His Big Mandate went something along these lines:... There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network." 1. https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX