All Things Distributed
Werner Vogels on building scalabale and robust distributed systems
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- Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond
- Return of The Frugal Architect(s)
- Introducing the inaugural Now Go Build CTO Fellows
- AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
- Empowering builders with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
- Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
- Introducing Distill CLI: An efficient, Rust-powered tool for media summarization
- Hacking our way to better team meetings
- District heating: Using data centers to heat communities
- What I've been reading since re:Invent
- Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond
- Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work
- Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell
- Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
- A few words on taking notes
- Monoliths are not dinosaurs
- Can autonomous trucks transform the global supply chain?
- How AI coding companions will change the way developers work
- AI doesn't plant trees
- Demystifying LLMs with Amazon distinguished scientists
- An introduction to generative AI with Swami Sivasubramanian
- Is Australia the new epicenter for healthtech startups?
- Bringing Digital People to life with autonomous animation
- Melbourne gets a Region, a big trip, and a brain mapping startup
- An album for each year - 2022 version
- Tech predictions for 2023 and beyond
- On site in Denmark: Behind the scenes with Veo
- ¡Bienvenida España! Introducing the new AWS Europe (Spain) Region
- The Distributed Computing Manifesto
- The new AWS Europe (Zurich) Region and 16 years of Swiss innovation
- Accelerating innovation in Thailand with the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region
- On site in Vermont: BETA's aerial maneuvers in the cloud
- On site in Hawai'i: How Terraformation is using AWS technology to reforest the world
- Now Go Build - Season 3
- Scaling globally with the new AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
- Curious about automated reasoning
- Curious about quantum computing
- Expanding the cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
- Tech Predictions for 2022 and Beyond
- Announcing the AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator: It's still Day One for robotics
- Amazon MemoryDB for Redis - Where speed meets consistency
- Our investment in Canada -- a new Region coming soon!
- Kia ora, Auckland! -- An AWS Region is coming to New Zealand
- Using the cloud to solve the world's hardest problems
- Now Go Build - Season 2
- Continuous Configuration at the Speed of Sound
- Amazon on AWS: Seamlessly integrating physical and emerging digital technologies
- Introducing AWS BugBust
- It's Officially Startup Season in Space
- Supercharging Application Delivery
- Amazon Timestream - Time series is the new black
- Continuing our investment in the Middle East: A New AWS Region coming to UAE in first half 2022
- A new era of DevOps, powered by machine learning
- Diving Deep on S3 Consistency
- Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all
- Celebrating 10 years in Japan with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
- From Schooling to Space: Eight Predictions on How Technology Will Continue to Change Our Lives in the Coming Year
- Strengthening our commitment to Australia
- How the Seahawks are using a data lake to improve their game
- Understanding Climate Change Using High Performance Computing and Machine Learning
- Grüezi Schwiiz! Bonjour la Suisse! Buongiorno Svizzera! An AWS Region comes to Switzerland
- Reinventing virtualization with the AWS Nitro System
- Now Go Build - Season 2
- The OS Classics
- The journey to modern manufacturing with AWS
- Confermando il nostro impegno in Italia: Apertura della Regione AWS Europe (Milano)
- Reaffirming our commitment to Italy: Introducing the AWS Europe (Milan) Region
- Continuing our investment in Africa: Introducing the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
- When scaling your workload is a matter of saving lives
- How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes
- The power of relationships in data
- AWS's HPC leadership recognized by industry experts with HPCwire awards
- ¡Hola España! An AWS Region is coming to Spain!
- Act locally, connect globally with IoT and edge computing
- Modern applications at AWS
- Expanding the cloud to the Middle East: Introducing the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region
- Amazon Aurora development team wins the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award
- Proving security at scale with automated reasoning
- Increasing access to blockchain and ledger databases
- Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
- Halo Jakarta! An AWS Region is coming to Indonesia!
- Redefining application communications with AWS App Mesh
- Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database
- Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
- Amazon Redshift and the art of performance optimization in the cloud
- Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!
- Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)
- Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!
- Make your voice count by simply saying, "Alexa, let's chat."
- A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone
- The workplace of the future
- Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud
- Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS
- Infinitely scalable machine learning with Amazon SageMaker
- Unlocking Enterprise systems using voice
- Rethinking the 'production' of data
- 'Paris s'éveille!' -- Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region'
- Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS China (Ningxia) Region
- Accelerate Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker
- Scaling Amazon ElastiCache for Redis with Online Cluster Resizing
- A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications
- As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!
- AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning
- Improving Customer Service with Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex
- Stop waiting for perfection and learn from your mistakes
- Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX): Speed Up DynamoDB Response Times from Milliseconds to Microseconds without Application Rewrite.
- Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong
- Unlocking the Value of Device Data with AWS Greengrass""
- Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.
- Faster, higher, stronger: How the digitalization of industry is redefining value creation
- Coming to STATION F: The first Mentor's Office powered by AWS!
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Twenty years of functional MRI: The science and the stories.
- Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Deep learning in neural networks
- Amazon Makes it Free for Developers to Build and Host Most Alexa Skills Using AWS
- How companies can become magnets for digital talent
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: The Foundations of Blockchain
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Byzantine Generals
- Back-to-Basic Weekend Reading: Monte-Carlo Methods
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Bloom Filters
- A survival strategy for the digital transformation
- Expanding the AWS Cloud Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region
- Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region
- Transforming Development with AWS
- Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.
- MXNet - Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
- Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.
- Meet the Teams Competing for the Alexa Prize
- Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team.
- Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region
- Accelerating Data: Faster and More Scalable ElastiCache for Redis
- Introducing the Alexa Prize, It’s Day One for Voice
- Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!
- A Hungry Neighbor is an Angry Neighbor
- New Ways to Discover and Use Alexa Skills
- Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
- Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
- Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
- London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!
- Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight
- The Startup Experience at AWS re:Invent
- The AWS Pop-up Lofts are opening in London and Berlin
- Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads
- Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Data Compression
- Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers
- Amazon announces the Alexa Skills Kit, Enabling Developers to Create New Voice Capabilities
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The Working Set Model for Program Behavior
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Survey of Local Algorithms
- Join me at the AWS Summit in Paris, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Amsterdam or New York
- The AWS Pop-up Loft opens in New York City
- Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Machine Learning Service, the Amazon Elastic Filesystem and more
- State Management and Scheduling with the Amazon EC2 Container Service
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Machine Learning
- European Union Data Protection Authorities Approve Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement
- Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics
- Join me at SXSW 2015
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Experience with Grapevine: The Growth of a Distributed System
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of a Distributed System
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage
- AWS Certification for DevOps Engineers
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Exploring Complex Networks
- The Easiest Way to Compute in the Cloud – AWS Lambda
- Expanding The Cloud - Introducing The Amazon EC2 Container Service
- The Story of Apollo - Amazon’s Deployment Engine
- Don't Miss These Startup Activities at AWS re:Invent!
- Expanding the Cloud – Introducing the AWS EU (Frankfurt) Region
- Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale...Together at last
- AWS Pop-up Loft 2.0: Returning to San Francisco on October 1st
- Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer
- The AWS Activate CTO to CTO series on Medium
- Expanding the Cloud: Docker Containers in Elastic Beanstalk
- Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services
- Updated Lampson's Hints for Computer Systems Design
- Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities
- Expanding the Cloud: Enabling Globally Distributed Applications and Disaster Recovery
- AWS re:Invent 2013
- Simplifying Mobile App Data Management with DynamoDB's Fine-Grained Access Control
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface
- AWS Activate – Supporting Startups on AWS
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model
- Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud
- DynamoDB for Location Data: Geospatial querying on DynamoDB datasets
- Expanding the Cloud: More memory, more caching and more performance for your data
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - An Introduction to Spatial Database Systems
- Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud
- Making Mobile App Development Easier with Cross Platform Mobile Push
- Feeling the Customer Love for AWS
- AWS re:Invent 2013
- Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists
- Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security
- DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!)
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems
- Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Join Processing in Relational Databases
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery
- The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize
- Elastic Beanstalk a la Node
- DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaper…
- Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution
- Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience
- Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Epidemics
- My Best Christmas Present – Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting
- An album for each year - 2012 version
- The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions
- Expanding the Cloud – Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte-scale Data Warehouse Service
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The Andrew File System
- Expanding the Cloud – introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using Encryption for Authentication
- Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Weighted Voting for Replicated Data
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Automatic Reconfiguration in Autonet
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Counting Bloom Filters
- Expanding the Cloud – Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Leases
- Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB
- Expanding Flexibility - Introducing the Reserved Instance Marketplace
- A Million Miles Away
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Load Sharing
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Granularity of locks
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule
- Expanding the Cloud – Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture
- Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Systems Simplicity
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems
- Expanding The Cloud – High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2
- Register for AWS re: Invent
- Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Hints for Computer Systems Design
- Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug
- Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront
- AWS re: Invent
- Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers
- Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service?
- Expanding the Cloud – Introducing AWS Marketplace
- Expanding the Cloud – Introducing Amazon CloudSearch
- Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS
- A Thousand Platforms ...
- Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers
- Expanding the Cloud – The Amazon Simple Workflow Service
- Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers
- Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway
- Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications
- Countdown to What is Next in AWS
- Expanding the Cloud – Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region
- Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache
- Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services
- Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics
- No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3
- Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region
- Spot Instances - Increased Control
- Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS
- APAC Summer Tour
- Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers.
- New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more
- The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology
- Mashing Up Science - The Mendeley API Binary Battle
- Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player
- Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton
- Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
- From the Archives - Gapingvoid's Nobody Cares
- Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation
- Free at Last - A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3
- New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3
- It is not the critic who counts ...
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud
- DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming
- Big Just Got Bigger - 5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3
- Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53
- This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits
- Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances
- Around the World in 28 Days
- Reboot
- Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2
- Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage
- Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
- I am looking for new application and platform services
- Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick
- AWS Import/Export launches support for Legacy Storage Systems
- Choosing Consistency
- Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
- Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features
- Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California)
- 82 Billion Objects in Amazon S3
- Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Web Services to support the Federal Government
- Seamlessly Extending the Data Center - Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- Feedback for Amazon Web Services
- Amazon is in-world and hiring!
- Expanding the Cloud: Moving large data sets into Amazon S3 with AWS Import/Export.
- Automating the management of Amazon EC2 using Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
- Making A Dramatic Difference
- Good Advice on Keeping Your Database Simple and Fast.
- Introducing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances - A way to further reduce IT costs.
- Expanding the Cloud: Expanding Amazon EC2 for Windows
- Eventually Consistent - Revisited
- Teamwork
- Expanding the Cloud: Amazon EC2 in Europe
- Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront
- Using the Cloud to build highly-efficient systems
- Amazon EC2 in Full Production
- Expanding the Cloud: Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon EC2
- AWS Startup Challenge 2008
- Expanding the Cloud
- Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store has launched
- Werner Vogels - Some Basic Information
- Root Cause
- An album for each year
- The Perfect Laptop - Unboxing the X300
- Ahead in the Cloud
- Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2
- On the Road to Highly Available EC2 Applications
- The Next Web Event
- Happy Birthday, Amazon S3!
- Got Questions?
- HDR - Take 1
- Usenix Open Access
- Danboard
- He'e nalu
- Eventually Consistent
- Marc
- And the Winner is ...
- Breaking through Physical Boundaries
- Tribute to Honor Jim Gray
- Amazon S3 in Europe
- Max, Min & Fair
- GMR
- HBR - The Institutional Yes
- Clarifying Internal-only
- Amazon's Dynamo
- Steve's Back
- Chat
- The Final Blade Runner
- 50 X
- Amazon MP3
- Amazon Widgets
- Mechanical Turk and the Search for Steve Fossett
- No QA. No Backups. No Sleep
- The Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS)
- Wired on Jim Gray
- Potter Delivered
- Job Opening for a Senior Research Engineer
- The Different CTO Roles
- Dynamo Reference
- Reading References
- New in May
- Dr. Swami
- Myths of Innovation
- On the Reliability of Hard Disks
- The Conference Season is Opening Up Again
- The Search for Jim Gray Continues
- Half a Million Assignments Completed.
- Turkers Working Hard on the Search for Jim Gray
- High Altitude Search for Jim Gray
- Help Find Jim Gray
- Jim Gray Missing at Sea
- SL -> WoW
- Out of the Office, Town and Country
- Sagan's Billions
- The odds of getting a PS3 or Wii for Chrismas
- Stormy Weather
- The King of Disk Drives
- Working Backwards
- New in November
- October Stuff
- Carbonado
- Home to S3
- Fulfilling
- The 2006 Young Innovators
- Unbox Remote Control
- OpenSearch.org
- Amazon in Scotland
- OOTO August 2006
- Life is not a State-Machine
- Amazon 2 Second Life
- Facts & Sources
- Graphs as Art
- Can you carry this for me?
- Your Queues are Ready
- Divine Feeds
- A New Family Member
- The Final
- Gnomedex Topic & Net Neutrality
- Some Observations on Conferences
- Sports Book
- What Are The Odds
- Get Your Priorities Straight
- You Guard it with Your Life
- Growing (up) is hard
- The Grocery
- Industrial & Scientific
- The Amazon Technology Platform
- May Countdown
- Performance and Scalability
- On the Wire
- Amazon Gets IM - Part II
- Amazon Gets IM
- Reactive Innovation?
- A Word on Scalability
- Naked Answers
- S3 - The Amazon Simple Storage Service
- Not Really A Top Ten
- Generating SiteInfo with MT
- Associating
- Opportunities in Modeling Complex Distributed Systems
- A Neutral Net
- Another Reality
- The Big Day
- Spring Systems Conferences
- Links Below Sea Level Needed
- Non-Linear Podcasts
- January Recommendations
- Feeds Redirected
- The Return & The Move
- Two Recommended Essayists