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Amazon products are never polished or fully fleshed out. You can spend a few minutes on their flagship site and find weird design choices or basic CSS mistakes.
by benbristow 6y ago
Amazon products are never polished or fully fleshed out. You can spend a few minutes on their flagship site and find weird design choices or basic CSS mistakes.
A shame considering the amount of money they have. You'd expect a bit more, but then again Amazon are in the business of scale, quantity over quality.
At least it keeps them from having a monopoly on literally everything.
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoUptime of essentially 100%. Hard to criticize when they accomplished something so rare in tech.
- benbristow 6y agoJust because something is up doesn’t mean it’s good. There’s an innuendo in there somewhere...
- 1DRACOSEA8 6y agoI see what you did there, Karen.
- SEJeff 6y agolaughs in us-east-1
- scarmig 6y agous-east-1 is part of the suite of chaos engineering tools AWS offers.
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoThe whole point is to use multiple Availability Zones across Regions, to protect your uptime from failures in single AZs or entire Regions. Amazon.com does that.
- SEJeff 6y agoAnd yet, even companies like pager duty, who have “one job” and hire many competent engineers, still struggle with this: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/outage-post-mortem-june-14/ https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/outage-post-mortem-june-14/ Note that pager duty now weathers Amazon outages beautifully, but the point is that amazon doesn’t have 100% uptime and that properly designing distributed systems is very hard.