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Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and recognized voice on cloud computing and engineering leadership.

He is the author of *Architecting for Scale* (O'Reilly Media, now in its second edition) and *Overcoming IT Complexity* (O'Reilly), and the creator of multiple courses for O'Reilly Media and LinkedIn Learning. He writes the *Software Architecture Insights* newsletter and co-hosts on *Software Engineering Daily*.

Lee has spent more than three decades in the software industry.
That includes seven years at Amazon and AWS, where he worked on Amazon Retail systems and built AWS Elastic Beanstalk,
and eight years at New Relic, where he led architecture for New Relic's SaaS observability platform.

He most recently served as CTO at AI comp ...more

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Let me give you the numbers straight, because I think the industry has done a lot of hand-waving around them and that isn��t helping anyone.

Programmer employment in the U.S. fell more than 27% over the past two years. Entry-level technology hiring at the largest firms is down 25% year over year. These a

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	Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications 3.56 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“According to Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, in 2014 Amazon did 50 million deploys to individual hosts. That’s about one every second.”
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“Performing manual operations is a common way to insert variable results and/or unknown results into your system.”
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