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with 89 days left in my #yeartolive, I thought I'd share some old #amazon stories. The first is about how the CTO told me I had caused "The Worst Bug in Amazon's History" (which I hope is no longer the case), and still got to keep my job.
Straight out of school I got to join this amazing team which was working on converting a monolithic c binary which ran the whole website (compiler flags for different locales) into a Service Oriented Architecture (though that word didn't exist at the time).
In 2003 I started working on a project to help build some internationalization into the web app container. We had to account for old browsers that didn't behave well with different character encoding systems (utf8 still wasn't widespread)
