It is depends ob your ability to pursue either of paths later in life. If you choose Amazon you would be earning money while at Cambridge you would be spending money. BUT on the long term after Cambridge you would earn more money.
So, if you see yourself starting at amazon, working a couple years, going to Cambridge later - you will join it with a much better background and experience, you will get more from the education. If you cant do that, go for Cambridge. Amazon wont get you enough experience to sustain on a long term
Databricks introduced Lakebase exactly for this purpose. Lakebase supports branching that makes querying, schema evolution and writes cheap. Each agent can run its own branch without affecting production data.
Have the author did the reality check exercise? What might seem as awful conditions by some westerner, might be great given other options. Once I read a post about working at Foxconn - assembly line for majority of hardware manufacturers. You might remember people were dropping off the roof because of hard working conditions. Yet they have a line of candidates. Because the other option is working at the same intensity but at no conditioned and barely ventilated clothing shop.
The answer depends on where you would like to spend your time on. If you believe your customers will be yours because yourygreat at operating poatgress datbase - do it, if your value in something else, go with AWS RDs postgress.
Younwill save a ton of time in exchange of delegating database management to aws. Use this time to develop features your customera are looking for. If you would like to leave aws eventually it still be the same postgress that you can run anywhere you like
This is very oversimplified view on what happens and thus provides wrong solution.
I would recommend you to watch this interview https://youtu.be/6xIeLJGcpfU. Alexander Shtefanov is not
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What complexity are we talking about? If your app needs queues, databases or shared storage, it is because of how you designed it. Now just imagine you’re doing this yourself: install servers, os, software, configure integrations, do patches, upgrades, repair hardware. Would it be any simpler?
It is hard to find good content on other verticals though. I saw ask for something like HN for different other industriesmany times here, but never saw any relevant answer
Just out of curiosity, what salary you compare with when saying it's really good? Salary is not the only motivator. What is the size of your company? How it is rated as an employer?
I was a kid during soviet time. Propaganda books, i.e. books about revolution was a minority.
Most of the books were regular children books about how to make friends, how to behave, how to study. There were books about science and fairy tales. Prose and poetry. There eas translation of books from authors from capitalist countries.
The kid books was very cheap like 3-5 kopeck (0.03-0.05 of rouble) with the average salary of abou 35 roubles.
The only problem was that most interesting books, teens books were rarely available in book shoops, but you could borrow it at a library. Libraries were available at every school as well as at district and city level.
So, if you see yourself starting at amazon, working a couple years, going to Cambridge later - you will join it with a much better background and experience, you will get more from the education. If you cant do that, go for Cambridge. Amazon wont get you enough experience to sustain on a long term