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Ken bookmarked on 2008-07-03 Amazon Werner Vogels
  • The Amazon development environment requires engineers and architects to be very independent creative thinkers. We are building things that nobody else has done before, so you need to be able to think outside the box.
  • We are a strongly customer-oriented company, and we often use the "working from the customer backwards" approach.
  • This may have been OK in an academic setting as it allowed for technology evaluation in isolation, but it just doesn't work in real-world engineering. The limitations of the physical world mean you have to work under certain constraints, regardless of how you would like it to be.

This link has been bookmarked by 2 people . It was first bookmarked on 03 Jul 2008, by Ken Wei.

  • 03 Jul 08
    • The Amazon development environment requires engineers and architects to be very independent creative thinkers. We are building things that nobody else has done before, so you need to be able to think outside the box.
    • We are a strongly customer-oriented company, and we often use the "working from the customer backwards" approach.
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