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I'm waiting for the day that AWS collapses under its own weight. Heard horror stories from backend engineers working on the infrastructure/dashboard code there.
by _xnmw 4y ago
I'm waiting for the day that AWS collapses under its own weight. Heard horror stories from backend engineers working on the infrastructure/dashboard code there.
- danuker 4y agoJudging by the price, it already has.
- WaxProlix 4y agoIf anything were going to do it, it'd be the labor crunch that we're seeing here. Without a constant influx of fresh-faced college coal lumps to burn in the tech debt engines Amazon would have a harder time of it. They've done a good job of pivoting though, and I think they'll weather the storm here (and be better off for it). See the increased comp to boost hiring rates - especially of non college hires - and an internal acknowledgement that addressing meaningful debt or internal pain is also a potential path to promotion. So, it'd be funny to see, but I don't think it's happening anytime soon.
- chrisweekly 4y ago> "constant influx of fresh-faced college coal lumps to burn in the tech debt engines" made me literally LOL. That turn of phrase is gold.
- strix_varius 4y agoOr even diamond, with enough pressure!
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThey're going to need diamond hands to hodl it together.
- greatpostman 4y agoI think there’s basically a zero percent chance of this happening. Aws may internally be full of technical debt, but for ten years now Amazon engineers have been automating the reliability issues of the platform. The capabilities are expanding, but the core components are some of the most rock solid engineering on the planet.