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In our system at work, we need to generate 1,000s of PDFs when a user updates their address (don't ask why 🤣). We use lambdas with SQS to achieve this in less than a minute. Here's how 🧵👇 https://t.co/DgLMY7VnP7
In his 2015 shareholder letter, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos introduced us to lightweight, distributed decision-making. He calls irreversible decisions “Type 1” decisions and reversible decisions “Type 2.” He goes on to note that “as organizations get larger, there seems to be a tendency to use the heavyweight Type 1 decision-making process on most
... See moreAlex MacCaw • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
from “scales, shards, and servers” one of my favorite posts so far on organizing oceans
A more in depth peek into the mechanics of distributed systems https://t.co/KlZb6P1ltR
Nobody likes hearing it but the only thing that'll ever save you is reading for hours every day.
Marlon J. Ettingerx.com
Immediately upon moving to Seattle, Wilke set about filling the ranks of Amazon’s logistics division with scientists and engineers rather than retail-distribution veterans. He wrote down a list of the ten smartest people he knew and hired them all, including Russell Allgor, a supply-chain engineer at Bayer AG. Wilke had attended Princeton with
... See moreBrad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Anyone who's used AWS Lambda knows how expensive it can be at scale. But why?
Well, a big part of it is the execution model. In Lambda, each request is launched into a separate execution environment, with its own resources (CPU and memory). This makes sense for compute-bound operations like image processing that fully... See more
mf really said im gonna fix the javascript ecosystem for web devs and did it
a real 10xer https://t.co/UgGU3uubcW