Werner's last couple of posts have been pretty interesting. The first talks about the queue service that has finally made it to production. It has the same economical model as S3 (pay as you go) and I think it will be just as successful.
The second post was about a new employee but also about the need to take into account scalability in their design of software.
In the Amazon world there is no such thing as a limited beta; everything needs to be production quality when it launches and scale in every possible dimension. Incremental scalability is a key fundamental concept in all of our designs such that we can handle growth reliably and cost-effectively.
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