Here it is. The first installment of Ted’s Life At Amazon.com.What? Well, it’s either a peek inside my mind, a chance for me to blow my own horn, or an effort to get you to join us at Amazon. Who am I? I’m a web developer. In Amazon terms, that means I spend the majority of my day working with perl to produce interactions. It’s more than HTML- a lot of the logic is built into these top few layers.
In fact, I think the general trend is for more decisions to be made by webdevs. This lets the SDEs (software engineers) work on other, bigger things, like database/application service, getting more applications released, and the like. As a webdev, I love having more data available- it’s one less person that needs to be involved in the release of a project, whether it’s a large project or a quick tweak to a page.
I wonder how long this will keep going? The tone of “Ted”’s writing is not 100% human, but it’s still interesting to me for the technical details. So far I learned that they use Perl and Mason.
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