Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day

Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by hartator on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:40PM (#17544889)

It's interesting that you can have hired the best talents in the world, but still have major outages. I wonder if there a way to ensure more people = more stability. Sounds a bit stupid, but maybe if each datacenter has its own software team working on the same issue, it will be very redundant work, but maybe it will be more organic in its failure?

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by gm-conspiracy on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:47PM (#17544941)

Or a team of 9 pregnant women making a baby in only one month?

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by hartator on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:56PM (#17545037)

Should work because 9 months / 9 = 1 month.

You probably want a distributed team though, with maybe fetus being thrown around by pneumatic mail.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by cncrnd on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:56PM (#17546959)

You're joking, but I do wonder if you can speed up fetal development in some way.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by HillaryBriss on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:37PM (#17546871)

I've heard this analogy before but I believe it could be improved. Thinking in terms of months leads to an awkward divisor.

It would be better to go with a divisor of 10 so as to assign precisely one finger and one toe to each of the distributed work groups.

(But, I have to admit, you may want yet another group to coordinate and assemble it all.)

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