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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by outworlder on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:34AM (#13061310)
There's only so much duct-tape you can throw at a problem before it becomes unmanageable. The scale, complexity and reliability of AWS indicates that they are indeed running a tight (and tidy) ship.
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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by serge2k on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @03:48AM (#13061744)
It's a mix. The code is good enough to get things running, but it still needs full time oncall who actually are constantly putting out little fires.
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