Zappos

In part 1 of this showdown, I discussed how we, at Zappos, replicated a key website service to different AWS regions for performance purposes. In this part, I’ll be discussing how and why we decided to not use AWS API Gateway (APIG) and instead opted to use our own Node.js…

The Zappos engineering blog design started with a birdwatching video.

At a company all-hands, our CEO showed the video to help inspire the journey to self-organization that Zappos is currently engaged in. I had never been exposed to birds behaving like this before and I was mesmerized by…