Ex-Amazon SDE checking in. The article is quite misleading. The author confuses "shiny" with "good". Amazon does package-based deployments because it scales w

Ex-Amazon SDE checking in. The article is quite misleading. The author confuses "shiny" with "good". Amazon does package-based deployments because it scales well and allow engineers from many different teams to work on packages and also provides fast security updates. Amazon used VMs more than a decade before container engines and the latter are still lacking security and stability. Having worked in many companies, I would take Amazon's engineering practices over the modern shiny devops tool ecosystem every day. I agree that Apollo is slow (due to the implementation) and has an ugly UI, and that the company has a very poor track record of contributing to OSS.