A CNBC reporter reached out to Andy Pavlo (professor at CMU) and other database professors about an internal Amazon document talking about an outage. Here is the full saga:
https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1055154039606910976<p>TL;DR Reporter flips out when told its a non-story. He still publishes the article with wrong conclusions. Goes to show the effect of having wrong incentives in media.<p>The article published on CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/amazon-move-off-oracle-caused-prime-day-outage-in-warehouse.html