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This is how many (most?) teams develop at...Amazon. It definitely scales to large teams and large (1000TPS) projects.

Most teams at Amazon are still using Brazil and Apollo (internal build and deploy systems that were brilliant 12 years ago but have aged poorly). CDK is just starting to become more common throughout the company. Many orgs barely use it.

And those systems have the entire Builder Tools org making sure they work.

I had suspected something like that from how basic CRUD operations on AWS can take minutes of latency compared to seconds when running whatever-it-is locally.

At least their solution architects get some moral redemption from peddling these messes..

so this company with 7 developers has the same amount of resources as amazon?

Clearly not, but this is a circular argument. As companies expand in size they naturally increase both their needs and their resources.

Are you arguing that using SaaS developer tools like the ones in this journal entry consumes a greater proportion of engineers' capacity than self-hosting does, and that this cost difference becomes proportionally greater as a company grows? If you're right, perhaps some cloud-based startups and also larger businesses will be eaten up by more nimble, efficient self-hosted competitors.

(I work for a cloud host)

The article clearly states how they scale this down to save on costs and dev time. No mystery here.

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