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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by Jach on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:48PM (#17544458)
Could also be an A/B test of some new infrastructure design to see if it's ready to deploy in November. I have no idea if they still hold everything together with Perl (via this templating system: http://www.masonhq.com/) but it wouldn't surprise me, and it also wouldn't surprise me that there'd be occasional pushes to replace it with something "modern" (or at least friendlier to the revolving door of new grads).
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by jimbofisher1 on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:52PM (#17544505)
This would go down as one of the worst A/B tests in history if that is the case, which I highly doubt.
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by sj4nz on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:51PM (#17544488)
This would make a lot of sense, they essentially get a "game day" with actual sales, make a lot of money and a few months to prepare for the next wave of seasonal mob-shopping.

I don't think they're using Perl anymore however.

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