infomaniac

Let's hope the investors have a break (through)

It shows.

They use all those spare brain tokens testing the product behaves correctly, right?

Right?!

> Amazon does not use relational databases

This is false, at least in my very thin exposure to the company: I interviewed for a team last year which was maintaining EC2 SSH keys using MySQL.

Can you elaborate on how you're storing this data?

Worked for an eCom store for 3 years, was on-call 24/7 for most of it due to understaffing. In this context, every second of downtime was actual money being lost. CEO drilled in the gravity of each outage.

Took me a good few months after changing jobs to not get crazy anxiety every time my phone rang.

After working in a much healthier on-call setup later in my career supporting a large SaaS, I actually really like it. High stakes produce quick learnings.

Not for everyone, but everyone should try it (and be compensated FFS).

Galaxy brain business model: shame the app developers and offer a tool to help them fix their mistakes.

Perhaps it's less about billing and more about disincentivizing excessive use? Even if the service is free, it's not infinite and is ultimately a shared resource that should not be monopolized.

Nothing interesting to add, just an anecdote. As someone based in a semi-rural part of South Africa, this dual cable break was a huge PITA for a few days. Latencies went through the roof; remote work was made very difficult.

Joburg native here, moved away about 12 years ago.

I still have people there, and every time I go visit its in an even worse state of disrepair; quite upsetting.

I found it very useful, thanks!

This is addressed in one of the linked tweets.