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"Amazon seems to have seriously cutting edge infrastructure" How do you know? Based on what they sell through AWS? This is not super evident - they might have
by amaks 10y ago
"Amazon seems to have seriously cutting edge infrastructure"
How do you know? Based on what they sell through AWS? This is not super evident - they might have duct taped bunch of shitty stuff and rely on people on-call 24x7 to keep system running.
- throwbsidbdk 10y agoI have heard whispers of this, and the mention of common on call hours seems to lend it some credibility
- sulam 10y agoYes, seriously legacy software (still a lot of Perl in their production web code, including ancient Perl template engines) and the on-calls are truly bad. AWS is more modern, but still not entirely awesome from what I've heard. On the plus side, hiring people out of there after a year is usually pretty easy.
- Tempest1981 10y agoWhat are the typical on-calls?
- sulam 10y agoYou are paged most nights and often more than once a night during your rotation and you are on rotation a lot.
- outworlder 10y agoThere's only so much duct-tape you can throw at a problem before it becomes unmanageable. The scale, complexity and reliability of AWS indicates that they are indeed running a tight (and tidy) ship.
- serge2k 10y agoIt's a mix. The code is good enough to get things running, but it still needs full time oncall who actually are constantly putting out little fires.