> I want to serve 5TB of data. Ok, spin up an instance in AWS and put it there... it was amusing when we hired people from Google who were confused by the lack of process and approvals.
Quoting from Velocity in Software Engineering https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3352692:
In 2003, at a time in Amazon's history when we were particularly frustrated by our speed of software engineering, we turned to Matt Round, an engineering leader who was a most interesting squeaky wheel in that his team appeared to get more done than any other, yet he remained deeply impatient and complained loudly and with great clarity about how hard it was to get anything done. He wrote a six-pager that had a great hook in the first paragraph: "To many of us Amazon feels more like a tectonic plate than an F-16."
Matt's paper had many recommendations... including the maximization of autonomy for teams and for the services operated by those teams by the adoption of REST-style interfaces, platform standardization, removal of roadblocks or gatekeepers (high-friction bureaucracy), and continuous deployment of isolated components. He also called... for an enduring performance indicator based on the percentage of their time that software engineers spent building rather than doing other tasks. Builders want to build, and Matt's timely recommendations influenced the forging of Amazon's technology brand as "the best place where builders can build."
...leading up to the creation of AWS.
Quoting from Velocity in Software Engineering https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3352692:
In 2003, at a time in Amazon's history when we were particularly frustrated by our speed of software engineering, we turned to Matt Round, an engineering leader who was a most interesting squeaky wheel in that his team appeared to get more done than any other, yet he remained deeply impatient and complained loudly and with great clarity about how hard it was to get anything done. He wrote a six-pager that had a great hook in the first paragraph: "To many of us Amazon feels more like a tectonic plate than an F-16."
Matt's paper had many recommendations... including the maximization of autonomy for teams and for the services operated by those teams by the adoption of REST-style interfaces, platform standardization, removal of roadblocks or gatekeepers (high-friction bureaucracy), and continuous deployment of isolated components. He also called... for an enduring performance indicator based on the percentage of their time that software engineers spent building rather than doing other tasks. Builders want to build, and Matt's timely recommendations influenced the forging of Amazon's technology brand as "the best place where builders can build."
...leading up to the creation of AWS.