The more heterogeneous a system is the better it scales. But errors spread fast as most of the system depends on a very small set of services.
When I was a kid, if one of the neighborhood shops had to close the rest were open. Only a power outage would make many shops stop operating, but many others will work on only-cash and it would be a minor inconvenience.
But this neighborhood shops could not operate at international level, nor make its owner the richest person on Earth.
In a not so distant future we are going to have to choose between mega-corporations that can crash the economy or smaller companies that are subject to the evolution pressure of capitalism.
I hope that taxation is increased globally. That would be the equivalent of reducing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. And as gigantic animals cannot live in a less oxygen-rich Earth, big corporations cannot live without tax-cuts and special deals with city governments.
if user == ‘jeff bezos ’
if user in (‘jeff bezos’, ‘andy jassy’)
This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.
Maybe she was trying to fix amaon.com :-P