> What’s interesting here, when you look at the highest-level block diagram of S3’s technical design, is the fact that AWS tends to ship its org chart. This is a phrase that’s often used in a pretty disparaging way, but in this case it’s absolutely fascinating.

I’d go even further: at this scale, it is essential and required to develop these kind of projects with any sort of velocity.

Large organizations ship their communication structure by design. The alternative is engineering anarchy.