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This is not good given that they just had a recent 6 hour downtime. Why would folks at Conde let this happen ?

• lowglow 16y ago
  I think a large company such as conde nast has a problem with engineering talent retention -- hence the move to AWS maybe?
  • staunch 16y ago
    I know that at least one of the motivations for using AWS was that they didn't have to go through purchasing process of Conde Nast which was a huge roadblock. I think that's actually one of AWS' biggest strengths. Once you get a corporate card in the account it's easy for the devs to buy what they need.
• cookiecaper 16y ago
  Conde really doesn't know what to do with reddit. They probably acquired it "knowing" they had to have something in "the social media space" (the acquisition predates the salesman's current buzzword of the hour, "the cloud") so they could compete in the "digital age" and all of that, but since they've acquired it my understanding is they've basically starved it and reddit has been running on fumes until they implemented Reddit Gold last summer. They're keeping it because they think they need something on this new-fangled internet stuff, but they don't what to do with it, and it's not generating much revenue, so they're just trying to leave things alone until they figure out something. Note that this is just speculation based on what I've read, I don't have any inside knowledge.
  • JoachimSchipper 16y ago
    Apparently, they have enough money but internal politics prevent them from hiring more people (it's a different budget...) Hence AWS, which isn't that cheap but does reduce personnel costs. See the big reddit thread on this topic, or HN's thread about that reddit thread.