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Pedro Del Gallego

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Pedro Del Gallego's personal blog at pedrodelgallego.github.io covers business, career and startups. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Away Team Model at Amazon”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
4HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on monoliths and team structure as a counterpoint to Conway's law, via the author's post on Amazon's "away teams" operating model. Commenters cite it as a working example.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

On building digital companies

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Away Team Model at Amazon
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-24
  2. The Single-Threaded Model at Amazon
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. akhayam · 2023-05-05
    Org will be orgs… and I find it hard to disagree with you :( The only counterexample to Conway that I have seen working is “away teams”: https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/operating-mode...

    Comment linking /blog/amazon/operating-model/away-team-model/

    on “Monoliths Are Not Dinosaurs”
  2. pdelgallego · 2022-05-05

    Submitted The Single-Threaded Model at Amazon as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. pdelgallego · 2022-07-29

    Submitted Tenets at Amazon as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  4. pdelgallego · 2022-05-20

    Submitted Automating Well-Architected Principles as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. pdelgallego · 2023-03-17

    Submitted Tolerating, Then Eliminating Duplication at Amazon as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. rzk · 2025-02-17

    Submitted Single-Threaded Leaders at Amazon as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. pdelgallego · 2022-05-24

    Submitted The Away Team Model at Amazon as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. softwaredoug · 2023-07-08

    Submitted The Away Team Model at Amazon (2022) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. pdelgallego · 2022-04-04

    Submitted Adopting a Well-Architected Framework Across the Organization as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. pdelgallego · 2022-03-04

    Submitted Organization Design at Amazon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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