[HN Gopher] Building and operating a pretty big storage system c...
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Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 (2023)
Author : metadat
Score : 19 points
Date : 2025-02-25 17:05 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| otterley wrote:
| If I have learned one thing that makes AWS successful in terms of
| delivering scalable and reliable services--and that hasn't yet
| been widely adopted elsewhere--it is captured here:
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| "The focus on ownership actually helps understand a lot of the
| organizational structure and engineering approaches that exist
| within Amazon, and especially in S3. To move fast, to keep a
| really high bar for quality, teams need to be owners. They need
| to own the API contracts with other systems their service
| interacts with, they need to be completely on the hook for
| durability and performance and availability, and ultimately, they
| need to step in and fix stuff at three in the morning when an
| unexpected bug hurts availability. But they also need to be
| empowered to reflect on that bug fix and improve the system so
| that it doesn't happen again. Ownership carries a lot of
| responsibility, but it also carries a lot of trust - because to
| let an individual or a team own a service, you have to give them
| the leeway to make their own decisions about how they are going
| to deliver it."
| dang wrote:
| Discussed at the time (of the article):
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| _Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36894932 - July 2023 (160
| comments)
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