Interesting saga behind a recent CNBC article on Amazon vs. Oracle

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A CNBC reporter reached out to Andy Pavlo (professor at CMU) and other database professors about an internal Amazon document talking about an outage. Here is the full saga: https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1055154039606910976

TL;DR Reporter flips out when told its a non-story. He still publishes the article with wrong conclusions. Goes to show the effect of having wrong incentives in media.

The article published on CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/amazon-move-off-oracle-caused-prime-day-outage-in-warehouse.html

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