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		xkjkls on June 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Document Culture of Amazon Scale is its own problem. Engineering anything at 10x the size or 10x the reliability, which Amazon does, is incredibly more challenging than the original problem.

kortilla on June 22, 2021 [–]

I didn’t say scaling wasn’t a hard problem. I said that they aren’t doing the hardest problems at scale.

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