Thanksgiving marks the start of the busy shopping season for Amazon, highlighted by Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Prime Day. In 2011, as an SDE-II engineer, I felt prepared for my role at Amazon and was working on a critical service handling petabytes of data. As the shopping season approached, I compiled a testing list to ensure operational integrity. However, load and performance testing was deprioritized, indicating the challenges and constraints faced during peak retail seasons at Amazon.
Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days for Amazon, alongside Cyber Monday and Prime Day, showcasing the critical retail events for the company.
In 2011, I was preparing for Black Friday while managing a service, processing petabytes of data, which was crucial for Amazon's operational success.
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