[toomuchtodo]

> I don't think this is an AWS specific problem, but we have to start treating people who prevent problems like the heroes they are. Everyone congratulates when you put out a fire.

This is sort of comforting to hear that Google’s same problems have reached Amazon, in that no tech behemoth is immune to prioritizing promotion and glitz over the maintenance grind.

> No one gives a damn if you prevent the fire in the first place.

Amen.

[mooreds]

> This is sort of comforting

I would personally put emphasis on the "sort of" clause.

If bigcos with tons of resources can't align incentives to build solid software instead of deliver new features, who among us has a chance?

[nvader]

The GP derives comfort from exactly that point--at some point, the behemoths calcify, and the incentives that come with size lead to a slower growth, if not outright decline.

This gives the rest of us a chance to one day have our day in the sun. We can deliver solid software, precisely because we are not big. And then, perhaps one day we may have the choice of growing into a bigco ourselves, or staying small.