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Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by rad_gruchalski on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:39PM (#33630196)
> Poorly designed, failure-prone, brittle internal tooling was a time and energy sink to the point where even the most trivial deployment change was a nail-biter.

Considering rather good quality APIs they expose to the external world, this is shocking to read.

Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by sbarre on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:22PM (#33633120)
Internal tools never get the same attention as public-facing products.

Public facing products have competition. Internal tools have a captive audience that must use them, no matter what.

Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by krageon on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:41AM (#33636378)
Good is a big word, but they exist and have docs. A lot of the time the docs are even correct, if you can find them.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by rad_gruchalski on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:20PM (#33647991)
I have most often interacted with their APIs via the golang library. Compared to Azure, the AWS stuff is pretty solid.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by krageon on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:48AM (#33653333)
Everyone says this, but in terms of discoverability of the actual apis I have found the opposite is true. Azure tends to have docs with small mistakes, but they are extremely thorough. With AWS it seems to be a tossup: You can be lucky and have complete and accurate information, or you can be fucked.