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by beastcoast 5y ago
AS2 is interesting because it includes a cryptographically signed Message Disposition Notification (MDN) - whenever there's a question if a document was delivered, just give the MDN information to the partner. This has led to some inte
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by beastcoast 5y ago
Can someone design a chat system that actually remembers conversations? I just had this issue with Apple support. If you don't reply immediately you get a new session with a new representative and the new representative doesn't ha
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by beastcoast 5y ago
What people miss is that micro services/SOA is an organizational concept more than anything. At Amazon, SOA is tied to the concept of the two pizza team. Each 2PT completely owns a collection of related services, owns the roadmap for t
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by beastcoast 6y ago
Firefox keyword searches are the way to go - you can setup URLs with arbitrary %s variables and go directly to the results page for a given tool. I have one or two char shortcuts for my most commonly used tools setup and my productivity exp
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by beastcoast 6y ago
This is a big part of Amazon’s success. Service oriented architecture gives teams enough autonomy to define their own processes. “You build it, you own it” often extends to products as well as services.
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by beastcoast 6y ago
It also helps that Amazon isn’t afraid to entertain ideas from lower in the ranks. You just need a strong idea and be willing to write a memo that explains it, then work your way up the chain until you get to a decision maker.
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by beastcoast 6y ago
I’d say we’re closer to an order of magnitude larger When you consider all the different businesses and domains. My org alone has about 1000 services. But we have massive scale and the employees to support that number of services. You also
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by beastcoast 6y ago
Amazon does micro services (or SOA) extremely well. In fact they practically invented the concept. It’s intricately linked with the 2 pizza team and service ownership concept (you build it, you support it)
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by beastcoast 7y ago
The problem with UBI is that most versions of it would essentially liquidate social services that people would normally receive. UBI only makes sense in addition to the other parts of a comprehensive safety net (universal housing and healt
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by beastcoast 7y ago
I’ve found OneNote very useful for Todo lists. It’s very flexible and supports collapsible nested lists. But the killer feature is the “dock to desktop” feature, which makes the list always visible on my monitor. It forces me to stay on tas
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by beastcoast 7y ago
What happened to the company that had a generous warranty policy? I went through 3 keyboard replacements for free and got a newer model each time. I miss that.
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by beastcoast 7y ago
Initially read to me as “climate escape”. Not sure if intended.
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by beastcoast 7y ago
I’ve been at Amazon 10 years and this post sums up a lot about what I like about Amazon as well. Regarding 2PTs: the big thing here is that each 2PT owns services, and has complete operational and (usually) product responsibility for those
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by beastcoast 7y ago
At Amazon I’ve seen Clojure used successfully as a DSL in a larger service. The scaffolding is Java and the DSL parts are Clojure.
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by beastcoast 7y ago
Only if the seller pays more to keep their products separate via stickering. Otherwise the seller’s products are commingled with other sellers’ products and it’s impossible to know which seller’s physical inventory was used to fulfill the o
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by beastcoast 7y ago
It’s worth noting that nothing Amazon built internally was ever directly sold through AWS. Rather, Amazon built something similar internally then used its engineer expertise to build a completely new product for AWS. Selling your big ball o
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by beastcoast 7y ago
To their credit, Amazon is pretty diligent about making sure that high performing employees get pay raises to match their market. My record is a 30% raise, mostly by switching job functions from non-tech to a tech role.
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by beastcoast 8y ago
The article overstates the use of ML at least in fulfillment we use a lot of math models (eg xpress solver) and optimization algorithms (traveling salesmen type problems) but not so much in the ML space.
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by beastcoast 8y ago
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle also covers the Royal Society at this time in history.
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by beastcoast 8y ago
Amazon has been doing the same thing for FC and CS workers for a few years now: https://www.amazoncareerchoice.com/home
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by beastcoast 8y ago
My child learned to say "put your phone down daddy!" from Sesame Street when she was just 4 years old.
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by beastcoast 8y ago
What’s interesting is seeing SOA evolve: first it was service calls everywhere, now it’s increasingly asynchronous publish/subscribe architectures (think AWS SNS and SQS) and service orchestration frameworks (SWF, Step Functions). In m
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by beastcoast 9y ago
It’s notable that Amazon, despite record growth, is also in a hiring freeze for nearly the entire Retail business. Leadership is also simplifying the management chain to reduce bureaucracy.
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by beastcoast 9y ago
Idea: Rather than all-you-can-stream, charge a low rate per song play to users. Assume that existing services charges $15/mo, and heavy users might play 16 hours a day, and act song length is 3 minutes, that comes out to about $0.0015
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by beastcoast 9y ago
Amazon is so decentralized that the anti-patterns you list are probably only under your VP. If anything I think the company is taking action to trim bloated orgs. For example there are internal efforts to prune middle management issues. (Fo
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by beastcoast 9y ago
Interestingly Amazon doesn't offer any incentives to get an MBA if you're already working there. No tuition reimbursement, raises or promotions. You're more valued as an external MBA hire.
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by beastcoast 9y ago
In WA we have absentee ballots which is really the best of all worlds. You fill it in, sign it and mail it back. Couldn't be easier and you don't have to worry about polling locations. They are also hardcore about checking your si
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by beastcoast 9y ago
The demo doesn't work on iOS. Otherwise looks cool!
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by beastcoast 9y ago
Anecdotally I know, I got my foot in the door at Amazon by temping and later being hired. Amazon is a great place to start as a temp IMO because they are always looking for talent and you will often be embedded directly with teams and be tr
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by beastcoast 9y ago
Does anyone have an example of a detail page with an externally hosted product image? I'm like 90% certain amazon hosts its own images. I wonder if the sellers are using external URLs to upload their listings through seller central, an

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