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This is off a bit, he's pretty technical, BS in Electrical Engineering and CS from Princeton. And his pre Amazon jobs were managing technical projects at D.E. Shaw and Bankers Trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
+summa cum laude
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+summa cum laude
So the opposite of "not really a technologist"?
One thing I think is so extraordinary about Jeff Bezos is his uncanny technical prescience despite not really being a technologist. For example, the famous Steve Yegge "platforms rant" blog post [1] about how Bezos basically made a company-wide edict for microservices was very much ahead of its time. Similarly, the vision of cloud computing was much more advanced and early than any of its competitors. Considering thi…
Jeff speaks with deep comprehension and enthusiasm regarding AWS, I've never heard him do such a thing for customer experience, and the more abstract and nuance issues of strategic marketing, branding, mindshare yada yada.
I'm not at all surprised to hear him say in retrospect that they will eventually be an 'AWS company'.
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What was the malloc's original usecase? Storing logs?
Manual memory allocation in the C programming language.
Anyway, I don't expect Jeff Barr to answer that question, although I'd be happy if he did.