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It’s worth noting that nothing Amazon built internally was ever directly sold through AWS. Rather, Amazon built something similar internally then used its engin
by beastcoast 7y ago
It’s worth noting that nothing Amazon built internally was ever directly sold through AWS. Rather, Amazon built something similar internally then used its engineer expertise to build a completely new product for AWS. Selling your big ball of mud directly is a recipe for disaster.
- dehrmann 7y agoThat, but I also have a theory about Version 2. By the time something hits v2, it's popular enough to justify the work to get to v2, and the lessons that were learned from v1 can be applied, even if that leads to breaking changes.
- cat199 7y agosometimes, but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect