scale

The site still needs upgrading to work at scale.

But my gut tells me they could get away with being a lot nicer and still scale.

When it happens slowly, as it does in these cases, it is hard to see the scale of what is happening.

* In recent years I've taken to building low-latency high scale systems.

And yet he has the audacity to say "I learned that one will see this sort of problems in all large scale companies."?

Of course, the common man knows it's common sense that there's an inherent need for secrecy in conducting small scale covert operations.

I can see where that is coming from, but the main factor that needs to be taken into account is the kind and scale of poverty that exists in India.

Someone who knows he's the sheeeeet but doesn't want to prove it at a big company that does lame stuff like QA. Someone who can down a can of Coke and a box of Mentos and then go on to devour a four-course meal of web-scale challenges the likes of which no other startup has ever faced.

I learned how to architect systems for scale, and a lot of practices used for robust, high-availability, frequently-deployed systems.

They've basically turned themselves - in my opinion - into a rogue agency that has J Edgar Hoover capabilities on a monstrous scale on steroids.

There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street.

No, not when they're being prototyped or tested or used in small scale settings - but definitely somewhere on the path from "tactical use" to "broad strategic dependence".These are not small issues, nor need they be at all partisan.