Did you know how Amazon Web Services was born?
In early 2000s Amazon was growing quickly and hiring new software engineers, yet they were still finding, in spite of the additional people, they weren’t building applications any faster…The internal teams at Amazon required a set of common infrastructure services everyone could access without reinventing the wheel every time, and that’s precisely what Amazon set out to build — and that’s when they began to realise they might have something bigger.
This is an excerpt from TechCrunch. AWS was an extraordinary solution to a technical debt.
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