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This discussion of Amazon's agility meshes well with Steve Yegge's famous rant on Google and Amazon. He attributes Amazon's success to their focus on designing all their software as a service, and actually credits this strategy as the very reason that AWS came to be in the first place.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

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Such a good read. Fun fact: it was first published 4 years ago to the day.

Yes. Great stuff. Just reading it ...

Yegge sez: "a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product."

I guess that's true. If I had to defend that statement, I'd try to argue that a platform, especially an open platform, will be tested, poked, prodded, evaluated, evolved and maybe even documented by many more developers than some monolithic piece of software in some closed code base.

But what other arguments are there?

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