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How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second

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Re: How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second

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tree666 wrote: post #67

Your article shows you put in a lot of work, and was written well. But... A few thoughts... Service Owners usually tend to design and build their systems in a way which allows them to understand and know how the system will behave under the worst conditions. It is not difficult to test these conditions either. A bash script utilizing curl will suffice. If you have to use 'Chaos Engineering' to experiment your way int…

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Re: How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second

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amzthrow wrote: post #48
beebmam wrote: post #12

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I'm sick of it being impossible to identify cheaply made products from high quality, durable products on Amazon. The rating system is flat out broken and there's an entire industry built around gaming those ratings. I'm at the point that I rarely ever buy products on Amazon anymore. It's a total disgrace. On an ethical level, I wish I had the ability to say "I only want to be presented with results that weren't made…

I understand how you feel. It can be frustrating. Contrary to popular belief Amazon actually does put energy into making sure products are responsibly sourced. Products are de-listed if they’re found to come from unethical sources. To take that even further take a look at Climate Pledge Friendly. Those are products with (at least one) third party certification. These certifications don’t just further climate goals. S…

A giant portion of Amazon's products are made in China by a populace that's enslaved by their totalitarian dictator. Please allow me to identify which products are made in China, and other communist/totalitarian states, so that I can exclude them from my searches.

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Post by wincy »

SteveNuts wrote: post #29
acchow wrote: post #27

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Sure the ads aren’t great. But that’s almost barely a problem compared to the gamed reviews

> But that’s almost barely a problem compared to the gamed reviews Which pales in comparison to the problem of counterfeit goods, IMO. I can at least somewhat comb through the reviews to look for outliers of well written reviews. Getting something that's obviously a fake (has happened to me multiple times) is completely unacceptable. Newegg has this issue too, I got a knock-off Intel CPU there once, I was furious.

What the heck, what does a knock off Intel CPU even look like? Who is making them and more importantly, how?

Re: How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second

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Post by vrosas »

catchnear4321 wrote: post #35
_a_a_a_ wrote: post #31

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> I suppose the idea is that it promotes AWS services an advert in disguise then?

anything that uses the template “How X did Y to improve Z by METRIC” and also hosted on company x domain is an ad. for that matter, any blog post by a company is an ad. maybe not to sell product, but to at least build exposure and familiarity with the brand.

To add to that, I’ve read enough of my own companies blog posts to know that Y was an incorrect solution to Z, was half-implemented at best, barely improved METRIC, and has already made a lot of peoples’ lives harder for simply existing. So now I take every single one of these posts with a massive grain of salt.
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