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To me this is just a simple artifact of size & attention. Another example of this is stuff like Bluesky. There's a lot of reasons to hate Twitter/X, but people going "Wow, Bluesky …

Oops, my bad.

I meant an AWS cloud native application, yes. But I use "cloud native" in a way that actually makes sense, not the way that GCP dubbed Kubernetes and all of it's ecosystem of frien…

* RDS is a managed relational database service. You got a database? We'll run it in the cloud for you. Exact same bits and bytes as you're running locally. * Aurora is Amazon's own…

Sounds good, but not true: https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/ S3 launched in 2006. EC2 didn't go GA until 2008. Elastic Block Store (a proper block store) showed up in 2008 too, …

Andy Jassy was the first product manager on AWS, and while there is lore debates whether he "came up" with the idea of AWS (probably not), he's been on it from the beginning and th…

As someone that works at AWS (but not on S3), that's wrong in like eight different ways. But the only way that matters is the core one - analysis, data, and instrumentation. AWS do…

I'm not lecturing them for leaving. I'm lecturing them for complaining about things that it WAS IN THEIR CONTROL TO ADDRESS. More than that - it was their actual JOB to ensure.

If you were L8 then the responsibility for setting the culture is 100% on you. L10s don't micromanage, and L7s take their cues from L8s. If you want to have fewer meetings, you can…

I know a lot of people here are writing about how this can be done for small consulting companies, but I also saw it in Big Tech. Amazon until 2022 really genuinely exemplified thi…

Been with Amazon for over a decade. The frupidity used to be a huge sore spot, but being honest, is no longer a part of the culture. Sure, there are no catered buffets or massage c…

1.5, but probably over a million of those are FC workers who are not on slack cuz they're running around the warehouse. There are just over 400,000 office employees WW So it's clos…

Sorry dude, you don't have credibility based on "Unless your willing to put up with a huge ration of shit on a regular basis, or you make it into management," Management at AWS arg…

I can't speak for Google, and Amazon doesn't have an L9, so our Distinguished Engineers are L10. But a decent bunch of them are the types of folks to have wikipedia pages: * https:…

No, you like coding. Which is okay! But it's the difference between an individual carpenter making a rocking chair for himself and his family, or maybe making a couple to sell to h…

Who hurt you? Do you even like software engineering? Quit, and go make sourdough bread, shit.

Maybe so, but don't you think I talk to new employees? It's half of my job to support my whole team and deliver through others. I battled those tools when I started. I watched them…

Amazon has a lot of bad internal tools, but this person's experience doesn't match mine (being here for 8 years) at all > 40% of my time trying to tame the bad internal tooling I w…

Everyone's interpreting this as AWS is zipping every customer's S3 data and improved storage of their data with ztsd. That's now what Adrian said, and this is not an announcement -…

Since we're sharing anecdotes and that's good enough for this thread, here's my own: I'm a white guy - pretty much a typical one. My manager is a white guy - possibly even more typ…

My main message was that NO - that's not how it is ANYWHERE at the company. Connections data isn't available to managers de-anonymized. Period. On any team. This post also has noth…

My primary HN account has a lot of other things in it that I'd rather not be associated with me being an "Amazonian", hence this one :) Manager performance is not tied to connectio…

That's bullshit and you're gonna scare the shit out of any junior Amazonian reading this unnecessarily. Obviously nothing is TRULY anonymous - at the end of the day there is a supe…