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Re:Any Day Can Be Prime Day: How Amazon Uses Chaos Engineeri... by dastbe on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:17AM (#37401843)
i do recall the simplestack version of dpx had some obscene issues with garbage generation, followed by some obscene issues with throughput due to aggressive locking (to avoid the obscene amount of garbage generated).
Re:Any Day Can Be Prime Day: How Amazon Uses Chaos Engineeri... by NBJack on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:06PM (#37407121)
I am not surprised. That platform was a neat concept, but wow, the nesting and resource consumption was atrocious. There was potential there, yet the implementation in Java made IMHO some fundamentaly flawed assertions about small objects. I unfortunately know of a great director who had to find new opportunities outside of the company over it.