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I've never been truly impressed with an Amazon product. Is Amazon's engineering culture really that strong?

by bmitc 2y ago

hughesjj 2y ago
Really, none? IDK, I've always thought DynamoDB and S3 were amazing, and Lambda, albeit not perfect on launch, was highly innovative and useful for many, many, many circumstances you'd either needs a k8s cluster or fleet of little used servers at the time. SQS and Cloud watch were legit to, although cloud watch metrics are a bit aged and logs were really difficult to use until insihhts came into place Also Glue, while it has some tenancy issues and rough edges, takes a bunch of work out of managing a datalake Oh and Aurora + Aurora serverless weren't as flashy but from an ops perspective game changing at the time Cloudformation is definitely showing it's age and I hate writing it compared to CDK, but it was also pretty game changing at the time. I don't know if it was the first infrastructure as code language, but it definitely kick-started the revolution.
jimmaswell 2y ago
Amazon the shopping website is useful and reliable at least.
- Maledictus 2y ago
  They can't even sort by price.
  - replwoacause 2y ago
    Yeah but they can ship me my Nespresso pods and scrub brush drill bit attachments and vitamin b complex by 4am the next day.
    - bmitc 2y ago
      That may or may not be counterfeit.
    - mahogany 2y ago
      Ingesting vitamins from Amazon is certainly a choice. One I would not make in 2024.
      - replwoacause 2y ago
        Yeah, I email Pure Encapsulations the lot code and they verify its authenticity.
        bmitc 2y ago
        Isn't that a lot of work and a negation of the purpose of fast shipping?
        replwoacause 2y ago
        It’s an email and takes me about 10 seconds to send. So not really no.
- nico_h 2y ago
  The shopping site is the worst mainstream shopping site. Find stuff is hell. It’s missing criteria, finding the shipping time / cost when comparing products is painful. Shipping is fast and prices are good, but you’re never quite sure you ordered the right size / color / edition.

I've never been truly impressed with an Amazon product. Is Amazon's engineering culture really that strong?

by bmitc 2y ago

I've never been truly impressed with an Amazon product. Is Amazon's engineering culture really that strong?

Really, none? IDK, I've always thought DynamoDB and S3 were amazing, and Lambda, albeit not perfect on launch, was highly innovative and useful for many, many, many circumstances you'd either needs a k8s cluster or fleet of little used servers at the time. SQS and Cloud watch were legit to, although cloud watch metrics are a bit aged and logs were really difficult to use until insihhts came into place Also Glue, while it has some tenancy issues and rough edges, takes a bunch of work out of managing a datalake Oh and Aurora + Aurora serverless weren't as flashy but from an ops perspective game changing at the time Cloudformation is definitely showing it's age and I hate writing it compared to CDK, but it was also pretty game changing at the time. I don't know if it was the first infrastructure as code language, but it definitely kick-started the revolution.

jimmaswell 2y ago

Amazon the shopping website is useful and reliable at least.

Maledictus 2y ago
They can't even sort by price.
- replwoacause 2y ago
  Yeah but they can ship me my Nespresso pods and scrub brush drill bit attachments and vitamin b complex by 4am the next day.
  - bmitc 2y ago
    That may or may not be counterfeit.
  - mahogany 2y ago
    Ingesting vitamins from Amazon is certainly a choice. One I would not make in 2024.
    - replwoacause 2y ago
      Yeah, I email Pure Encapsulations the lot code and they verify its authenticity.
      - bmitc 2y ago
        Isn't that a lot of work and a negation of the purpose of fast shipping?
        replwoacause 2y ago
        It’s an email and takes me about 10 seconds to send. So not really no.
nico_h 2y ago
The shopping site is the worst mainstream shopping site. Find stuff is hell. It’s missing criteria, finding the shipping time / cost when comparing products is painful. Shipping is fast and prices are good, but you’re never quite sure you ordered the right size / color / edition.