It's ten years since we launched Amazon CloudFront! Building it was super fun, my first day at Amazon was spent getting stuck into the CloudFront routing software and making it actually work. A few weeks later, but before we launched, we hit my favorite bug ever ...
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So we never experienced it ourselves, or our test cases, and we didn't notice it until we really started looking at other locations. I always think of that when I remember that even "dumb" and "obvious" bugs can be subtle and invisible because of your perspective.
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*Greenwich in my previous tweet. Anyway, fun bug! CloudFront had an incredible launch team, including 8 then-or-now Principal Engineers, which is staggering!
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Wait, usually west longitudes get negative numbers...was this particular to the geodb you were using?
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Yep! It was built in USA and predated CloudFront.
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Erm… America has negative longitude…
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