No, they got it published in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes.
That's one of the things that publication is for.
The paper is a well-supported (if not well-proofread) position paper, synthesizing the author's thoughts and others' prior work but not reporting any new experimental results or artifacts. The author isn't an academic, but someone at Amazon who has written nearly 20 articles like this, many reporting on the intersection of academic theory and the real world, all published in Software Engineering Notes.
As an academic (in systems, not software engineering) who spent 15 years in industry before grad school, I think this perspective is valuable. In addition academics don't get much credit for this sort of article, so there are a lot fewer of them than there ought to be.
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No, they got it published in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes.
That's one of the things that publication is for.
The paper is a well-supported (if not well-proofread) position paper, synthesizing the author's thoughts and others' prior work but not reporting any new experimental results or artifacts. The author isn't an academic, but someone at Amazon who has written nearly 20 articles like this, many reporting on the intersection of academic theory and the real world, all published in Software Engineering Notes.
As an academic (in systems, not software engineering) who spent 15 years in industry before grad school, I think this perspective is valuable. In addition academics don't get much credit for this sort of article, so there are a lot fewer of them than there ought to be.