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AFAIK the "Amazon runs on AWS" meme was originally a line of pure marketing tripe.


Incorrect, Amazon.com runs on AWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588012


AWS tech maybe, but you can be pretty assured that the data centers (or at least networks) are are almost completely segregated.


Nope, its all mixed outside of software segregation.


Those store owners couldn't use a thousand pickaxes simultaneously.


They could hire people to operate the pickaxes, like how BFL would have to pay for electricity to power their mining hardware.


Being a JS developer must be the pits - you need to run really fast just to keep up.


...you need to run really fast just to keep up.

This is exactly the part of being a JS developer that is appealing :)


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