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outworlder on Nov 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-M...

There's only so much duct-tape you can throw at a problem before it becomes unmanageable. The scale, complexity and reliability of AWS indicates that they are indeed running a tight (and tidy) ship.

serge2k on Nov 29, 2016 [–]

It's a mix. The code is good enough to get things running, but it still needs full time oncall who actually are constantly putting out little fires.

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