strivingtobe

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by strivingtobe 2y ago
Neither, they're talking about the culture of writing documents as a form of sharing ideas. Where other companies might use powerpoint presentations or unstructured meetings to brainstorm on ideas, Amazon instead encourages people to w
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
As a current Amazonian (and one that, as mentioned in my other comment, enjoys working at AWS largely because of interactions with brilliant tech minds and projects), I agree with most of your comment. However... >choose your team and ma
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
They have repeatedly tried to remove the free coffee perk (usually by claiming that it was only intended as a temporary thing and will be removed at the end of the year) and the only reason it has been retained this far is because for multi
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
Money, mostly. But also: working at AWS is genuinely really interesting at a technical level. Very few companies operate at the scale that AWS does, and being able to have technical documentation about the underlying workings of EC2 or IAM
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
> We want to operate like the world’s largest startup It's always amusing when a multi-decade-old, multi-hundred-billion-dollar company says stuff like this. You're not a startup. You never will be. And if you were, you probabl
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
TIL the origin of the term "cutover" for IT migrations. Fascinating!
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
My understanding is that it's the latter. "in SCED" basically means they have pre-planned availability that is cheap. The "Physical Response Capacity" in that graph is the amount of capacity actually available, but
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
Texas has a lot of incentives for residential solar. I'm not sure where you live, but in my DFW suburb, my neighborhood _is_ peppered in rooftop solar. https://www.gosolartexas.org/available-incentives A lot of the inc
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
No. The 130 MW remaining capacity was the amount available "in SCED within 5 minutes", which in super simplified terms means "the amount of energy available quickly and economically". The grid actually had ~4 GW spare ca
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
> At the time we did not auto-scale any of our containerized services and were spending a lot of unnecessary money to keep services provisioned such that they could always handle peak load, even on nights and weekends when our traffic is
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by strivingtobe 2y ago
The article brings up the two new LPs that were added, one being "Strive to be the world's best employer". The biggest slap in the face about this LP is that the word "strive" used to be a bad word at Amazon. If you