The article is no more available. I read it and then sent it to a few friends and now its the links dead.
That was the best and most truthful article I read in a long long time.
Steve's Google Platform rant
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#32Here's another mirror of that post
https://plus.google.com/117935797319364093334/posts/95Laytmo...
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was not true at all, at least thru 2007. At that time, there were some minor services that made some use of AWS services, mostly newer things that had been created after AWS was created. AWS was not available to developers within Amazon to use at any time before the day it was publicly launched. At least not on a broad basis, and none of the main Amazon.com services ran on it in 2007. They did share some data ce…
Interesting... any current Amazon employee that can confirm/deny this? Perhaps things have changed since 2007.
Amazon Silk uses the EC2 infrastructure -- they explicitly state this in their video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u7F_56WhHk )
Re: Steve's Google Platform rant
#34It seems to 404 now, a copy is available at https://raw.github.com/gist/933cc4f7df97d553ed89/24386c6a79b...
"You're over the rate limit. Serve this file from your own servers. Contact support@github.com if you have questions."
EDIT: Looks like fixed now.
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#36Seems like it was removed? Too bad I haven't copied it off earlier....
https://raw.github.com/gist/933cc4f7df97d553ed89/24386c6a79b...
I mean this in the nicest way, but there's probably a good reason he took it down and it's his work.
So do him a favour and delete the copy. Out of respect to a great writer.
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#37Werner Vogels did an on-stage interview recently at the Kings of Code conference in Amsterdam. A question from the audience was: "Does the Amazon shopping site run on AWS as well or on a more private/shielded AWS-cloud?". Werner answered that they use the same infrastructure as everybody else and that they could not justify doing anything else. It gave me tremendous trust in the AWS platform.
This was not true at all, at least thru 2007. At that time, there were some minor services that made some use of AWS services, mostly newer things that had been created after AWS was created. AWS was not available to developers within Amazon to use at any time before the day it was publicly launched. At least not on a broad basis, and none of the main Amazon.com services ran on it in 2007. They did share some data ce…
Some of the vendor facing systems I worked on definitely were not on AWS by the time I left in 2008. And there wasn't any plan on the map to migrate them at the time. But that was 3 years ago.
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#38I worked at Amazon from before Steve left to sometime later. I remember being excited when Larry Tessler was hired, and dismayed at the way he was treated. Everything Steve says about Amazon is true, only, it was much worse. Amazon was, by far, the worst employment experience I've ever had. I'm not saying that lightly, I worked for a dozen startups, a couple of which crashed hard in the most gut wrenchingly painful w…
I interviewed at Amazon and got an offer recently, but I have to admit, it did kind of sound like this kind of job. I really liked the offer stage, where I asked for 4 weeks vacation (what I have now) instead of their standard 2 weeks. "That's not negotiable! It wouldn't be fair if you got better benefits just because you're better at negotiating than others on your team!"
True. Offer rejected.
Re: Steve's Google Platform rant
#39It seems to 404 now, a copy is available at https://raw.github.com/gist/933cc4f7df97d553ed89/24386c6a79b...
Here's another mirror: http://buu700.com/steverant
Re: Steve's Google Platform rant
#40It seems to 404 now, a copy is available at https://raw.github.com/gist/933cc4f7df97d553ed89/24386c6a79b...
He's posted saying that it was meant to be available internally only, but didn't set his permissions correctly:
https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/bwJ7kAEL...