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Re:Any Day Can Be Prime Day: How Amazon Uses Chaos Engineeri... by dmoy on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:37PM (#37399852)
> That's their problem, no? Nobody's forcing them to have an architecture where a request propagates to hundreds of services.

Well, Jeff Bezos circa 2002 or so did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102800

It's hard to remove that ethos now

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Re:Any Day Can Be Prime Day: How Amazon Uses Chaos Engineeri... by hughesjj on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:52PM (#37408565)
And thank God he did, amazon would have direct without the SOA enforcement.

Scale issues are emergent issues. It's a phase transition.

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