In their defense it’s rare for a company that has sloppy quality in some products to be knocking it out of the park with another product. The same company cultu

In their defense it’s rare for a company that has sloppy quality in some products to be knocking it out of the park with another product. The same company culture that allowed the sloppy products in one area tends to prevent other teams from doing their amazing quality work. I’ve used various AWS services and found the ones they designed, or standard services they customized to have more bugs and problematic limitations than one would hope. I was especially angry at Aurora Postgres when it came out because their hacked up customizations introduced memory leaks. Their work made a DB I’ve used for 20 years for its reliability suddenly unreliable. I now work for a company that pays them a lot, so at least I see them fix bugs quickly now, but at startups that only paid them a few million they would ignore problems we reported. Their culture focuses on doing more at lower cost to the breaking point(they’re 21st century WalMart) and they have one of the worst reputations in the industry for burning out developers so it doesn’t surprise me when I run into bugs, silly limitations, or poorly thought out tooling. Their consumer products are absolutely infuriating OCD triggers. For years in the Kindle app if you went back a page it would often start on a different paragraph than the first time you were on the page. The book reader didn’t implement the concept of a _page_ correctly for goodness sakes. And they clearly intended to emulate physical pages because they did implement a fancy page turn animation.