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I think Amazon (and Google and other FAANG entities) work at another scale than 99.9% of the rest of the world. The problems they face are different, including

I think Amazon (and Google and other FAANG entities) work at another scale than 99.9% of the rest of the world. The problems they face are different, including the impact of data locality. I've seen many systems where there are a few hundred to a few thousand users, not hundred of millions or billions of users. There can also be teams of 5-10 developers who manages +20 microservices. I still don't think those projects have the same needs and could have done something else.

lamontcg 4y ago
I started at Amazon in 2001 when we had around 400 servers running the website, it was large, but it was around the scale that most Fortune 500 companies operate at. I'll agree that a team of developers with 20 microservices sounds obviously wrong (which is really my point that the site should be divided around data and the orgs should probably reflect the needs of the data--not the other way around). And Amazon back then didn't have that problem.