Steve Yegge's 2011 accidentally-public Google+ post that described Jeff Bezos's internal API mandate at Amazon, explaining how the requirement that all teams expose their services as APIs transformed Amazon into a platform capable of launching AWS.
Made Amazon's internal API mandate public knowledge — the insight that requiring all teams to communicate via APIs forced the creation of clean, externally-usable services — becoming the most widely cited account of how Amazon's internal architecture enabled AWS.
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