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166 karma · joined August 19, 2015
(Full Disclosure: I work at Datadog)
Isn't that super contradictory? How is the old algorithm both objective AND skewed towards Javascript?
> *from my high school years, where I first tasted the god-like feeling of dominance over software*
This piece of writing killed the rest of this article for me. While his point is worth making, the way he went about making it just sounds very childish. Especially for a Professor.Is this truly new or even newsworthy information?
If you have Product Management the failure was on them for not driving the customer need. Also, this is not me just scapegoating PM... it's actually what I do
1) Reserved Instances: I think the pricing model for this has become very outdated since the beginning of AWS, and it is definitely becoming cumbersome (and therefore scary) to use.
2) ELB + Traffic Spikes: I have tried (unsuccessfully) to pre-scale an ELB to prepare it for the traffic it was about to receive. I tried to pre-scale for this project 3 different times, in coordination with support and without them. I could not do it. Very frustrating.
I think these are all signs of extreme growth, and a strange organization of engineering units inside of AWS. However, as OP descried.. we are much to heavily invested in AWS to consider an infrastructure shift at this point