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		setheron on Nov 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hier... Wow I remember using Ion back at Amazon in 2012. I can’t remember but I think the order data warehouse was using it … I also now remember back to using something that was akin to FaaS but wasn’t called that. I could give them a JAR of some code that would execute on some Ion data for the order data when it changed. Basically FaaS for an ETL pipeline… Crazy how ahead of the times some companies were.

User23 on Nov 20, 2021 | [–]

That was a golden age for Amazon engineering. I assume they’re still great, but that stretch from 2004 to 2014 was some incredible advancement.

vineyardmike on Nov 20, 2021 | [–]

I wonder why it took 10+ years to share then?

timdorr on Nov 20, 2021 | [–]

Actually, it only took them 4-ish years: https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/news/2016/04/21/amazon-open-...

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