3 Lessons From The Amazon Takedown – Fortune
They are: The leaders we admire aren’t always that admirable; Economic performance and costs trump employee well-being; and people participate in and rationalize their own subjugation. ‘In the end, “Amazonians” are not that different from other people in their psychological dynamics. Their company is just a more extreme case of what many other organizations regularly do. And most importantly, let’s locate the problem, if there is one, and its solution where it most appropriately belongs—not with a CEO who is greatly admired (and wealthy beyond measure) running a highly admired company, but with a society where money trumps human well-being and where any price, maybe even lives, is paid for status and success.’ (via Lean)
(tags: amazon work work-life-balance life us fortune via:ldoody ceos employment happiness)
What does it take to make Google work at scale? [slides]
50-slide summary of Google’s stack, compared vs Facebook, Yahoo!, and open-source-land, with the odd interesting architectural insight
(tags: google architecture slides scalability bigtable spanner facebook gfs storage)
Scaling Analytics at Amplitude
Good blog post on Amplitude’s lambda architecture setup, based on S3 and a custom “real-time set database” they wrote themselves. antirez’ comment from a Redis angle on the set database: http://antirez.com/news/92 HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10118413
(tags: lambda-architecture analytics via:hn redis set-storage storage databases architecture s3 realtime)