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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

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183 points crescit_eundo | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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stephenlf ◴[28 Aug 25 16:53 UTC] No.45054376[source]▶
Remember when Amazon Video moved from serverless back to a monolith because they were using S3 for storing video streams for near realtime processing? This feels the same. Except Amazon Video is an actual company trying to build real software.

Amazon Video’s original blog post is gone, but here is a third party writeup. https://medium.com/@hellomeenu1/why-amazon-prime-video-rever...

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thrance ◴[28 Aug 25 17:28 UTC] No.45054764[source]▶
IIRC they were storing individual frames in S3 buckets and hitting their own internal lambda limits. Funny story tbh.
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1. mikepurvis ◴[28 Aug 25 17:44 UTC] No.45054920[source]▶
Has a lot of “orders from on high to dog food all the things” energy.
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2. breppp ◴[28 Aug 25 18:47 UTC] No.45055588[source]▶
My guess was "no real cost accounting for service usage internally, until one day zero interest ends and a VP changes that"