Because OTHERWISE people might think AMAZON is a DYSFUNCTIONAL company that is beginning to CRATER under its HORRIBLE work culture and constant H/FIRE cycle.
See, AWS is basically turning into a long standing utility that needs to be reliable.
Hey, do most institutions like that completely turn over their staff every three years? Yeah, no.
Great for building it out and grabbing market share.
Maybe not for being the basis of a reliable substrate of the modern internet.
If there are dozens of bespoke systems that keep AWS afloat (disclosure: I have friends who worked there, and there are, and also Conway's law), but if the people who wrote them are three generations of HIRE/FIRE ago....
> Maybe not for being the basis of a reliable substrate of the modern internet.
Maybe THEY will go to a COMPETITOR and THINGS MOVE ON if it's THAT BAD. I wasn't sure what the pattern for all caps was, so just giving it a shot there. Apologies if it's incorrect.
See, AWS is basically turning into a long standing utility that needs to be reliable.
Hey, do most institutions like that completely turn over their staff every three years? Yeah, no.
Great for building it out and grabbing market share.
Maybe not for being the basis of a reliable substrate of the modern internet.
If there are dozens of bespoke systems that keep AWS afloat (disclosure: I have friends who worked there, and there are, and also Conway's law), but if the people who wrote them are three generations of HIRE/FIRE ago....
Not good.