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The only thing magical about AWS' backend is how much manpower they can throw at things. Amazon doesn't have a good engineering culture. It's all about shippin
by throwaway343432 6y ago
The only thing magical about AWS' backend is how much manpower they can throw at things.
Amazon doesn't have a good engineering culture. It's all about shipping things as fast as possible. People get promoted an leave for other teams, and the new folk gets burned out due to on-call load while trying to fix crappy software they have inherited.
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- ipsocannibal 6y agoFrom what I understand AWS and Amazon are two separate dev groups. Does your statement cover all of Amazon or only AWS? Why don't the new folk iteratively refactor their systems to remove operational burden? Isn't that part of owning any codebase you didn't write?