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by Codhisattva 5038 days ago
Yes indeed. The scalability of Amazon.com is truly a work of engineering genius.
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RandallBrown 5038 days ago
From what I've heard from Amazon employees, it's barely holding together and hardly genius.

Of course, that same scalability (AWS) is what powers Reddit and dozens of other major websites.

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Codhisattva 5038 days ago
It's been a few years but when I saw Amazon's architecture overview presentation at OSCON it was brilliant work.
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