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Except that they don’t. The API mandate gets violated all the time. And no one at Amazon actually treats every other team as a 3rd party.

• raw_anon_1111 7mo ago
  Have you worked at Amazon? I am not saying they treat every other team as a third party. I am saying they treat the code itself as a black box with well defined interfaces. They aren’t reaching in to another services data store to retrieve information.
  • sarchertech 7mo ago
    How do you know someone is ex-Amazon ? Don’t worry they’ll tell you. I haven’t mentioned it 5 times already so you can be pretty sure I haven’t. I know too many people that have worked there to ever make that mistake. But more importantly, have you worked there in the last decade?
    • raw_anon_1111 7mo ago
      Then you have know idea how Amazon works. I was there from 2020-2023. And before that I worked at 4 product companies when new to the company managers /directors/CTOs needed someone to bring in best practices and build and teach teams. I honestly wonder what type of “big ball of mud” implementations (https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-big-ball-of-mud-and-other-architectural-disasters/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-big-ball-of-mud-and-other-...) you have had to deal with that weren’t properly componentized and covered by tests.