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Re:Amazon has no idea how to run an app store by rodgerd on Sunday January 10, 2016 @06:06PM (#10877686)
> Makes me totally re-evaluate AWS after seeing how its built internally.

Customers care about deliverables, not elegance.

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Re:Amazon has no idea how to run an app store by goldenkey on Sunday January 10, 2016 @06:10PM (#10877696)
I'm pretty sure Atlassian (recently IPOed) proved that to be wrong, especially in the case when your customers are developers.

Besides, bad repetitive code almost always results in bugs. If there were a ten commandments of programming, that would be #1.

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Re:Amazon has no idea how to run an app store by crucifiction on Sunday January 10, 2016 @06:54PM (#10877857)
The JIRA source code is available when you buy a license and it is not the pinnacle of good engineering. It is textbook Java enterprise beans gibberish engineering.
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