Posted by super_linear 19 hours ago
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/11/aws-emulator-an...
Is AWS offering such a lock service for its costumers ? Multi regional?
I was able to create a TV emulator at my work with a mostly independent agentic loop, because we have a lot of tests to examine a smart TVs APIs. The agents mostly just need to make the tests pass.
Code frequency pages shows:
"There are too many commits to generate this graph."
I mean that's a job, but in many orgs it's been done by (cheaper) non-engineers (business analysts, QA professionals) for decades. So what does an engineer do?
We haven’t. QA has been part of the process but only one stage of the process mentioned above. How do cheaper non engineers decide if you’ve designed and implemented your query planner, payments gateway, auth, caching strategy, or other similar features correctly?
P.s I don’t doubt that incompetent orgs would do this incorrectly but it’s not sensible to take that as norm.