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Ex Amazon here. Amazon has some solid principles that often go against popular belief. - No waterfall-ish process where design is handed down from architects t
by ex_amazon_fc 7y ago
Ex Amazon here. Amazon has some solid principles that often go against popular belief.
- No waterfall-ish process where design is handed down from architects to senior engineers to juniors. The same people do design, implementation, ops and so on.
- Measure everything and always. People are encouraged to define metrics and goals and create dashboards before writing code
- Simplify: decreasing complexity is taken more seriously than in other companies. Do not use a database when you can use a file, or a message passing library when you can use a socket, or 200 lines of code when you can for out to "grep | sort". This can be surprising to new hires.
- srndh 7y ago> message passing library when you can use a socket kindly explain that logic
- Too 7y agoI'm also curious about this. Reinventing your own serialization and retransmission every time, instead of using proven technology does not sound like "decreasing" complexity. Same goes for using files and grep instead of databases in many cases.
- gsempe 7y agoIt probably means that if you only need to ping a process from another one (no payload needed or only a handful of case expeceted) you don't have to deploy your last gRPC knowledge. cf. how daemons are managed on Linux