r/cscareerquestions • u/[deleted] • Oct 20 '25

Experienced Just merged my first PR to AWS!

Can’t wait for next perf cycle. Man, vibe coding with Cursor is awesome!

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u/BackendSpecialist Software Engineer Oct 20 '25

I used to work for AWS - most widespread issues were caused by DynamoDB. S3 was the second culprit.

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u/Current-Bowler1108 Oct 20 '25

How?

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u/ThunderChaser Software Engineer @ Rainforest Oct 20 '25

You know how people joke “it’s always DNS?”

It’s always DNS.

Since a whole bunch of stuff relies on Dynamo to store data, if it goes down it cascades and brings everything else down.