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> I don't think it's defensible to argue that we should build thing sub-standardly just to give people more choice That's like a village of straw men. Stop go
by richardw 3y ago
> I don't think it's defensible to argue that we should build thing sub-standardly just to give people more choice
That's like a village of straw men. Stop going around telling everyone they're fucking idiots. We'd probably agree 90% of the time, dealing down the intensity just makes for a better discussion.
They "already owned a tool for audio/video quality inspection, but we never intended nor designed it to run at high scale (our target was to monitor thousands of concurrent streams and grow that number over time)"
Good principle #1, reuse. They launched faster than starting from scratch. They changed direction and modified some components, and then published, against what marketing would probably have wanted. Real problems are when you paint yourself into a corner and can't fix it. They fixed it.
Amazon, keep telling us what lessons you've learned because it helps the whole industry.
(Edited to remove some of my own incendiary annoyance.)