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Last I heard, Amazon does a 25-way join on their customer tables to print a shipping label. Now that's quite an albatross for developers and DBAs to carry aroun
by redis_mlc 6y ago
Last I heard, Amazon does a 25-way join on their customer tables to print a shipping label. Now that's quite an albatross for developers and DBAs to carry around!
Mark was a perfectionship in releasing a working product. That doesn't mean it was good from a programming standpoint, but it was tested and always worked well.
eBay is the poster child for shitty software. At one point their CTO was requesting one Sun E10k per month ($2 million each fully populated) because of how slow and leaky their Windows code was. The board said no and they had to fix it.