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The Amazon Technology Platform

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-the-covers dept.

Don420 writes "Jim Gray has an interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels for ACM Queue. It is filled with a lot of details about the Amazon architecture that we have not seen before: 'If you hit the Amazon.com gateway page, the application calls more than 100 services to collect data and construct the page for you.' But also quite a strong statements about developing software at Amazon: 'Developers of our services can use any tools they see fit to build their services. [...] Whatever tools are necessary, we provide them, and then get the hell out of the way of the developers so that they can do their jobs. [...] Developers are like artists; they produce their best work if they have the freedom to do so, but they need good tools.'"

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  1. Unlimited budget by DonCarlos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Having unlimited development budget is definitely THE good thing I sometimes miss myself ;)

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  2. Cat got your tongue? by x_MeRLiN_x · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, Amazon can't be around for much longer at the rate they're cutting it down.

  3. Artists? by should_be_linear · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well *Some* developers are like Artists, others are more like Naïve painters with unlimited budgets for colors and huge canvases.

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