Wednesday, May 17, 2006
The Amazon Technology Platform
"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.'"
source:http://slashdot.org/articles/06/05/17/0453208.shtml
source:http://slashdot.org/articles/06/05/17/0453208.shtml
# posted by dark master : 5/17/2006 10:11:00 AM
