Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng...
by BiteCode_dev on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:47AM
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Not an anti-article sentiment, but I dislike the trend of big companies pretending they care about the nerds just because they realize they need them for one particular objective.
It's an anti-marketing sentiment.
Re:Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos eng...
by jwilber on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:53PM
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That makes more sense. I think it’s worth framing differently, though.
Big companies aren’t writing the doc, per se. Engineers interested in the material are. And often, they want the opportunity to do so - it’s something of a stamp for “expertise” in their favor.
Assuming the post is actual quality, it’s a marketing win for the company, a professional/developmental win for the employee, and an informational win for everyone else.
To avoid more of the same, I’ll say that the article itself is pretty detailed, but whereas Netflix blog-posts are more general, this one feels hyper-specific. That’s great if you’re tied to aws, but I think the former has longer-lasting + further-reaching utility.
Hope they do more.