I work on similar Tier-0 azure service. Following things are beyond comprehension.
Scale.
Complexity.
Painful long history of design decisions.
Gazillion trade offs and corner cases.
I actually felt bad for the engineers at aws because I closely understand the pressure and pain they would have had to go through to normalize the situation.
It's very easy to make loose comments..."do this..do that..." if you don't know what it takes to operate at this scale. And if you have operated at this scale, you will naturally be silent and actually rooting for the engineers(irrespective of the company) to normalize the situation.
Insightful, thank you. There is a piece screaming to be written, titled "The Curse of Modesty". Pretty sure that I am not going to be the one writing it.
Thanks Jos. I'm a junior software engineer and these are pure gold articles for me.
Have a good one!
Thank you for your kind words!
I love these articles
Thank you for your kind words
I work on similar Tier-0 azure service. Following things are beyond comprehension.
Scale.
Complexity.
Painful long history of design decisions.
Gazillion trade offs and corner cases.
I actually felt bad for the engineers at aws because I closely understand the pressure and pain they would have had to go through to normalize the situation.
It's very easy to make loose comments..."do this..do that..." if you don't know what it takes to operate at this scale. And if you have operated at this scale, you will naturally be silent and actually rooting for the engineers(irrespective of the company) to normalize the situation.
It really reminded me this incredible Sivers' article: https://sive.rs/slow
Insightful, thank you. There is a piece screaming to be written, titled "The Curse of Modesty". Pretty sure that I am not going to be the one writing it.