Comment by bmitc
Comment by bmitc 4 days ago
I've never been truly impressed with an Amazon product. Is Amazon's engineering culture really that strong?
Comment by bmitc 4 days ago
I've never been truly impressed with an Amazon product. Is Amazon's engineering culture really that strong?
Amazon the shopping website is useful and reliable at least.
The shopping site is the worst mainstream shopping site. Find stuff is hell. It’s missing criteria, finding the shipping time / cost when comparing products is painful.
Shipping is fast and prices are good, but you’re never quite sure you ordered the right size / color / edition.
Yeah but they can ship me my Nespresso pods and scrub brush drill bit attachments and vitamin b complex by 4am the next day.
Really, none? IDK, I've always thought DynamoDB and S3 were amazing, and Lambda, albeit not perfect on launch, was highly innovative and useful for many, many, many circumstances you'd either needs a k8s cluster or fleet of little used servers at the time.
SQS and Cloud watch were legit to, although cloud watch metrics are a bit aged and logs were really difficult to use until insihhts came into place
Also Glue, while it has some tenancy issues and rough edges, takes a bunch of work out of managing a datalake
Oh and Aurora + Aurora serverless weren't as flashy but from an ops perspective game changing at the time
Cloudformation is definitely showing it's age and I hate writing it compared to CDK, but it was also pretty game changing at the time. I don't know if it was the first infrastructure as code language, but it definitely kick-started the revolution.