can confirm, am an Amazon engineer, morale is terrible, am also leaving this month.

doesn't seem very Amazonian to me lol

because it's a joke lol

came here to ask the same thing! :D

"How to solve it" [1] was helpful for me in this regard, but it isn't really condensed like this blog post.

After you finish "how to solve it", you can read the more advanced "Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning" [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Scie... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Plausible-Reasoning-Two-V...

I can't tell if this is satire or not

Also, I just tried this BAYC image URL and didn't get any hits:

https://ik.imagekit.io/bayc/assets/ape1.png

the fact that this is necessary shows you what an abject failure the current state of NFTs is.

shouldn't this be open sourced?

this is dope! I've been thinking about building something this for a few months now. Glad to see that I don't have to anymore! :D

It's funny, while I was reading the "before" architecture I found myself thinking "my god, why don't they just move to a cloud already? this would be much simpler if they did". I "turned the page" and there was GCP :D.

Also, I wonder why they went with GCP instead of AWS. Does Twitter have a deal with Google that I'm not aware of?

It appears to me they left a lot of the real time processing in house, and the pub / sub to web clients and processing of that data to GCP where I'm guessing the rest of their web delivery stack is. I think they're wise to keep the real time processing in house (eg: kafka streams, etc)

agreed! the real-time processing should be bespoke and is where I think Twitter previously shined. The data processing wasn't a point of differentiation for them and so it makes sense for them to offload it to a cloud provider and let someone else deal with the operations associated with it.

oh, also, what's next, the iota architecture?