Comment by beanjuiceII

that IS the lesson! there are a million questions i can ask myself about those incidents. What dictates they can't ever screw up? sure it was a big screw up, but understanding the tolerances for screw ups is important to understanding how fast and loose you can play it. AWS has at least a big outage a year, whats the breaking point? risk and reward etc.

I've worked places where every little thing is yak shaved, and places where no one is even sure if the servers are up during working hours. Both jobs paid well.. both jobs had enough happy customers