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> All the points noted in the slides etc just come from poor engineering leadership. i.e decisions/choices, etc.

Hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to make these claims after the fact. In the moment it's far more complex and the decisions made at the time take in a lot of factors. Oversimplifying things and placing blame on a tiny thing doesn't push the discussion and learnings forward.

Lambda came out in late 2014 and Step Functions came out in late 2016. It's entirely likely that this team was an early adopter of the tech. Internally a lot of these AWS technologies have a roadmap that sound like they will solve a lot of your issues but those roadmaps get tossed fairly regularly as priorities shift at the product level and AWS-wide level.

We won't be able to get the info on what went on here (likely the team that improved things doesn't even know due to turn over). But watering it down to be "poor engineering leadership" is off the mark and way too simplistic.

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I wasn't talking about the Prime Video case, I was talking about the slides in Adrians blog post which compare Serverless with traditional development.

IMO if you are facing those problems it has to be poor leadership, there is no excuse for why you shouldn't be able to make effective decisions if you know what you are doing.