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Author here. Two comments: 1/ As you mentioned, this is not a good approach for start-ups. The single-threaded model keeps teams autonomous and focused by eliminating alignment in …

And if I recall correctly, AWS needed to develop Nitro before offering Graviton.

AWS Glue Data catalog is Hive, and as you mentioned, Athena is a wrapper of Presto

anything big enough that connecting it using wifi might be challenging. E.g. Port, factories, airports, ...

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Nation states -> wealthy bigco -> billionare's pet project -> hobbyist (e.g. Copenhagen Suborbitals) -> normal people.

That is what I like (at least in theory) of AWS CodeGuru. It helps you to detect bugs and common bad practices automatically in the code review.

I help often customers understanding technical debt, and code quality. Most people focus of code metrics, but they tend to forget organizational metrics, and how that impact the so…

Project Kuiper?

as a new grad there, it wasn't your fault. There should be guardrails to protect you.

The Jevons paradox applies to compute. In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the rate of c…

It is quite common to get communication wrong, even inside Amazon. It leads to design by committee, slow decision making, and increase team dependencies. I would love to hear your …

Music is a winner-take-all markets. It makes it really hard for new musicians to break in. It also tend to be a sticky market, so those that have several hits remain relevant for a…

The Two-pizza team concept is a very small part on how Amazon works. A few others on top of my head. - Enable high-velocity decision making: Defining clear tenets that act as the n…

AI algorithmic progress is outpacing Moore’s Law at it best. Compared to 2012, it now takes 44 times less compute to train a neural network to the level of AlexNet. How that affect…

If workers unionize right now, then it will probably put the general public opinion against the workers. Specially as the pandemic get its way into the US, and more and more people…

The return of JEDI