/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12102897
>It's just crazy that the Russians inherited some of the best space flight technology in the world yet they fail to use it.
Russia has been experiencing severe brain drain since 1991. This broke the chain of apprenticeships that was the backbone of Soviet technical training. Additionally, many of their spaceflight programs were distributed to various other SSRs for political reasons (exactly like SLS contractors el oh el), and so when the Soviet Union collapsed they lost those. They'd have reannexed Kazakhstan outright if the Kazakhs tried to deny them access to Baikonur.

Also, the last fully Soviet trained cohort is going to age out of military service in six years. Expect Russia to completely implode in 2027.

>>11753389
The cardinal rule of Amazon is "it varies by team," because the two-pizza rule creates a whole bunch of small teams with lots of autonomy. There's also a fairly significant cultural split between AWS and the retail side.
> I have heard people say Amazon is really brutally competitive internally, and that its not fun,
This is much more true on the retail side of things.
>and also that its really business and customer value driven in their internal processes
Yes.

Tech wise there's a huge spread of languages, with Java the largest one, but there's also some C/C++ in performance critical areas and we're introducing Rust as well. The hypervisor behind AWS Lambda is written in Rust, for example. Python and Ruby are used a bit but not for fast-path stuff.

If you're looking for /sfg/ development jobs in Amazon, we have openings in two organizations. On the retail side, we have our own satellite ISP division Project Kuiper. On the AWS side, we have AWS Ground Station, which is ground-station-as-a-service that lets you rent time on our dishes and dump your data straight into an AWS account right off the antenna.