BUILDING AND OPERATING A PRETTY BIG STORAGE SYSTEM CALLED S3

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This article goes over how S3 works, the steps taken to build it, and how it runs today. One of the people involved in building it talks about the personal, technical, and organizational challenges he faced along the way. One of the greatest learnings and career accelerators was ownership and encouraging ownership in others. There are often multiple ways to solve a problem, and picking the right one is letting someone own the solution.