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> Amazon is company focused on scaling commodity use cases, not at engineering excellency. I think of it slightly differently. S3 is clearly the product of eng
by finnh 5y ago
> Amazon is company focused on scaling commodity use cases, not at engineering excellency.
I think of it slightly differently. S3 is clearly the product of engineering excellency (as is DynamoDb).
But I think there are A teams and B teams at AWS, as you would expect from any company so large. And I get the sense that at least some of the newer, less proven solutions were written by the B teams. This likely includes some k8s-market-share-grabby offerings.
- glogla 5y agoI heard same story told slightly differently - for services that process your requests when you go to amazon.com to buy stuff, you can expect engineering excellency. That would be dynamo, s3, ec2, networking (that whole side of AWS - hypervisors, networks, etc., I'd call engineering marvel). But that would not be software they build "for someone else", like Redshift and Glue and Sagemaker and whole lot of other stuff. There's a whole lot of half-baked services in the ~200 they have.