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I recommend reading Steve Yegge's (in)famous "Platforms Rant". https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 The conven
by bhupy 5y ago
I recommend reading Steve Yegge's (in)famous "Platforms Rant". https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
The conventional understanding is that AWS was a top-down mandate by a prescient Bezos way ahead of its time, and that vision ultimately paid off.
- foobarian 5y agoI never saw a corroborating, or adding more detail source for Yegge's post, and I wonder if this wasn't Bezos himself talking. I think someone put him up to it.
- philwelch 5y agoThe mandate Yegge alludes to in the “platforms rant” is to adopt a service-oriented architecture, not to build a cloud services provider.
- NOGDP 5y agoThis uncorroborated story is not 'conventional understanding'. It doesn't even demonstrate any link to AWS vision or architecture. Service oriented architectures existed years before this mythical memo and AWS didn't exist until years later. This memo reads like a Steve Jobs parody - just blatantly attributing all major tech and architectural decisions to Jeff's genius and foresight.
- ra7 5y ago> just blatantly attributing all major tech and architectural decisions to Jeff's genius and foresight. In a thread that is attributing all of SpaceX and Tesla's technical achievements to Elon Musk's genius and foresight...