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• 2020-10-30
  

  This forced [[Amazon]] into becoming the largest Service oriented architecture ever made. All of a sudden, every team in Amazon had to treat every other team as if they were a customer (and possible adversary). In other words, ever team at Amazon had to "eat their own dogfood." [[Kislay Verma]] expands on this idea on his blog, calling this the golden rule. This rule means that everyone, including internal teams, even the team building the service itself, must use the service as if they are an external customer. There can be no backdoors or exceptions - everyone uses the same service. And that service must be externally programmable to allow users to build useful, valuable products.

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