hnexamazon

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by hnexamazon 1y ago
Tens of thousands of TPS per node.
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by hnexamazon 1y ago
I was an SDE on the S3 Index team 10 years ago, but I doubt much of the core stack has changed. S3 is comprised primarily of layers of Java-based web services. The hot path (object get / put / list) are all served by synchronous A
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by hnexamazon 4y ago
I also work at AWS on EC2 and agree with this assessment. Amazon is large and the culture varies across organizations. I’ve worked at multiple big tech companies and AWS EC2, while not perfect, is the best place I’ve been part of.
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by hnexamazon 6y ago
What causes have the other 19,920 COVID cases been traced to? I read the articles you linked and this is the only other data I could find: “The results showed that more than a thousand COVID-19 cases had been linked to construction and nurs
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by hnexamazon 6y ago
I went with the commercial C-frame with a 60” desk and I think the 4 legged version would be overkill. I have a 27” iMac sitting on a 4U rack monitor stand filled with devices and probably around 30 pounds of music equipment on top of the d
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by hnexamazon 6y ago
I happen to have both a Jarvis desk I bought 3 years ago, and just recently bought an UpLift v2 with the commercial crossbar package as an additional desk in my office. Both sit next to each other, making comparison easy. I was content with
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by hnexamazon 10y ago
I actually spent the last two years writing a music app that integrated with the Soundcloud API to provide the bulk of the music content. To call their iOS SDK "neglected" is an understatement, but what I found worse was the opaqu
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by hnexamazon 10y ago
I am a long-time user of Soundcloud that has recently stepped back from the service. As an EDM enthusiast, the service is the best place for finding up-and-coming talent and great remixes that you can't find anywhere else. The killer f
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by hnexamazon 11y ago
I also recently quit Amazon. I also worked within AWS. However, I absolutely loved it, and had the complete opposite experience to almost everything you are describing. My reasons for leaving had absolutely nothing to do with Amazon, and I