cmiles8

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by cmiles8 1y ago
When finance folks come up with creative solutions to problems, bad things happen. Here the “problem” is that these AI companies don’t have enough money to buy things and the traditional pool of investors that would give cash and then sit o
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by cmiles8 1y ago
All the major providers seem to have blips on latency and other issues at least once a day, which would be a “service degradation” by the standards of normal apps.
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by cmiles8 1y ago
Word on the street is that Amazon leadership basically agrees with this and recognizes things have gotten off course. AWS is a small number of things that make money and then a whole bunch of slop and bloat. AWS was mostly spared from yeste
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by cmiles8 1y ago
A bunch written about this recently by analysts. That is the “bear” outlook on AWS
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by cmiles8 1y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. This is spot on. Likely Amazon and AWS folks in denial of where they really are relative to the market’s bar at the moment.
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by cmiles8 1y ago
Or just use UTC and stop using timezones in code. I get it’s not that simple for some use cases but UTC exists for a reason.
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by cmiles8 1y ago
At higher levels or extremely specialized roles perhaps. But your typical big tech “principal” IC isn’t consistently making 7 figures.
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by cmiles8 1y ago
Well anecdotally it now looks like the bar has been lowered from “rockstars of our industry” to folks writing self-aggrandizing slop for LinkedIn
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by cmiles8 1y ago
Well that sounds like exactly the sort of thing that shouldn’t happen when there’s an issue given the usual response is to spin things up elsewhere, especially on lower priority services where instant failover isn’t needed.
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by cmiles8 1y ago
This. When Andy Jassy got challenged by analysts on the last earnings call on why AWS has fallen so far behind on innovation in areas his answer was a hand wavy response that diverted attention to say AWS is durable, stable, and reliable an
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by cmiles8 1y ago
Looks like you’re being down voted for saying the quiet bit out loud. You’re not wrong though.
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by cmiles8 1y ago
US-East-1 and its consistent problems are literally the Achilles Heel of the Internet.
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by cmiles8 7y ago
There is a lot of misleading analysis and reporting out there for sure. Sometimes it seems like people are more interesting in publishing findings than caring to understand what the data really says.