kablow

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by kablow 5y ago
I'm in non-AWS and things aren't any better here. It is very much dependent on the manager and team, and I've been optimistic (~3 years now), but it gets harder as time goes on. > I'm just not 100% sure about the whol
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by kablow 5y ago
> The thing I've noticed at Amazon is that not only are the pre-existing conditions awful, but nobody has any interest or willpower to fix it. Everyone will happily vent to you and tell you how awful things are, but any suggestions
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by kablow 5y ago
"large scale event" or something to that affect - these issues are visible to everyone company-wide
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by kablow 6y ago
In at least a few orgs I've seen the switch was to RDS (usually postgres) instead of dynamodb because they couldn't justify an entire redesign of the schema at the same time as the switch. It was a huge effort with a lot of late n
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by kablow 6y ago
> If it's not good, switch teams ASAP. At least in large companies it can be pretty hard to actually find the good teams among all of the noise. I've tried to keep my eyes open for them but haven't had any luck yet.
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by kablow 6y ago
Wow reading all these stories about Apple really is eye-opening, as I've only usually heard these types of things about Amazon before. I say that because I work for Amazon, and my work environment is pretty bad by my standards (my team
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by kablow 6y ago
Based on this I'm still not sure if she actually wrote the piece or just published it (as her bio lists her as a co-founder of the site.)
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by kablow 6y ago
I'll add: even if he is speaking for AWS with some authority, he certainly doesn't speak for the rest of Amazon. I've seen some teams with _really_ bad practices (security and otherwise.) As for your comment about the writer,
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by kablow 6y ago
To be fair, with the way Amazon's TC/RSUs work you always have some left unvested - I don't know if it is possible to quit "fully" vested (unless you're referring only to the initial grant.)
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by kablow 6y ago
Cloudflare dns doesn’t support it, if they’re your dns provider. Some browsers are using them for dns over https which may be the culprit.