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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by mcguire on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:54AM (#19583133)
... Fuck debuggablity. Fuck performance. Fuck understanding what is actually going on....

(Sure, managed solutions can satisfy all of those. But not without understanding a few orders of magnitude more complexity than a simpler solution, and you'll never get there if your attitude is "I'll pay Amazon to do that for me." Amazon doesn't care whether you succeed.)

Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by empthought on Saturday April 06, 2019 @09:09PM (#19594112)
> Amazon doesn't care whether you succeed.

Wait, what? Why wouldn't they? Successful companies will spend money with them; defunct companies can't.