After nearly 25 years, I’m publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto in its entirety, an internal document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of our e-commerce platform.
in one tweet? 1) if you want to be a VP of Engineering focus on teams and people and how to make them succesfull 2) wanna be a CTO? Simplify. Focus on the business, what is the simplest, most robust Tech/Ops that makes the business succeed.
Amazon's Oracle data warehouse was one of the largest (if not THE largest) in the world. RIP. We have moved on to newer, faster, more reliable, more agile, more versatile technology at more lower cost and higher scale.
#AWS
Redshift FTW!
In latest episode of "uh huh, keep talkin' Larry," Amazon’s Consumer business turned off its Oracle data warehouse Nov 1 and moved to Redshift. By end of 2018, they'll have 88% of their Oracle DBs (and 97% of critical system DBs) moved to Aurora and DynamoDB.
#DBFreedom
Exclusive: Google execs want to be no 1 or 2 in cloud by 2023 or may pullback. $goog. Great detail in important read about the state of google cloud. Echoes of the search wars but the tables have turned.
20 years ago Amazon went through a major transformation. Here’s what we learned about building modern applications along the way. - "Modern Applications at
#AWS
" -
#allthingsdistributed
I am extremely disappointed in the FCC decision to remove the
#NetNeutrality
protections. We'll continue to work with our peers, partners and customers to find ways to ensure an open and fair internet that can continue to drive massive innovation.
We’re disappointed in the decision to gut
#NetNeutrality
protections that ushered in an unprecedented era of innovation, creativity & civic engagement. This is the beginning of a longer legal battle. Netflix stands w/ innovators, large & small, to oppose this misguided FCC order.
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 – A unique perspective by
#AWS
Distinguished Engineer
@andywarfield
on what it means to scale systems, yourself and others.
#allthingsdistributed
#S3
After many years at
@amazon
I can tell you that
@ajassy
is the absolute best person lead the company. More customer obsessed than any other leader I have met.
#stilldayone
Today another peer, who is 20 years younger, is retirering. I am looking in the mirror asking what is wrong with me? But there is still so much to be done, so much innovation around the corner. Us engineers have the most amazing jobs, we can create new meaningful things every day
As I have said over and over again; the best way for us software guys to deal with doggy infrastructure pieces is to treat *all* infrastructure as unreliable, and make sure we can give end-to-end guarantees in an untrusted world.
I just got stopped at customs, where they requested to search my luggage. I am fine with that, but when I asked them why they picked me, the answer was, "The AI system indicated you look too normal." I am still contemplating whether that is a compliment or an insult....,
I need to get me some of these cards. Wouldn't be the first time I am leaving an establishment because someone openly carrying sits at the bar drinking. (I know it is a right, but with 370 mass shootings in 2019 in the US with 1,466 injured and 441 died, I am not taking risks)
I let trolls be trolls. But to yesterday's group who feel that because of my name I (and thus Amazon) must be the next incarnation of WII Nazi attrocities: I am Dutch. My parents sent to forced labor in Germany and were fortunate to return where many were not. Do your research.
Excellent analysis by
@github
on their 10/21 incident. Great transparency. It shows what a disastrous effect a 43 second network outage can have. - "Every thing fails, all the time"
Last week we experienced an incident that impacted our services, your projects, and your businesses. We know how much you rely on GitHub and sincerely apologize for the problems this caused. See a full post-incident report here:
Never let facts interrupt a "good story.” Tried to help reporter get it right, but clickbait won (). Our Fulfillment Centers have migrated 92% of DBs from Oracle to Aurora with better avail, less bugs and patches, less troubleshooting, less hw cost. More:
The official AWS
#Infinidash
GA event is tonight at half time during the
#BELITA
game in the Allianz Arena in Munich. You can buy me a beer to celebrate our most important launch ever...
Today I am pleased to announce the launch of AWS re/Start in Amsterdam. This program prepares unemployed and underemployed individuals for a career in cloud computing and introduces them to future employers.
One of the coolest things I got to announce today is
#AWS
Application Composer. It will have significant impact on quickly building serverless applications.
#reinvent
Reading the horrific stories from
@ASpittel
@editingemily
and
@abbyfuller
on their experiences from the past week makes me extremely sad. This was supposed to be a celebration of tech for everyone, but us "men in tech" still can't get our act together. Grrrrr.
Nothing like a big tech conference to remind you what men in tech think about the rest of us.
Them: “You’re in client services?”
Me: “Not exactly.”
Other them: “You don’t seem that technical.”
Me: “I wrote the whole damn session.”
@Werner
just announced
@DynamoDB
transactions! Now you don't have to choose between internet-scale (millions of RPS, hundreds of terabytes, trillions of items in a single table) and ACID transactions. Go build!
Please take some time to read through
@abbyfuller
's Twitter feed today. She has been courageously talking about the continuous stream of unwanted advances you get as a female engineer. It is all our responsibility to call it out, don't wait for the next Abbey to get fed up
this thread is well-written, and i appreciate the thought that went into it. if you're currently in my mentions talking about how i should learn to take a compliment, maybe you'll listen to kyle (since clearly you're not listening to me)
I like to personally apologise to
@RaphaelManke
and
@donkersgood
for our actions yesterday. Both Raphael and Luc are tremendous assets to the AWS community and their Re:Invent Schedulers are serving a need for our customers. Raphael's is back, but sorry that Luc won't continue.
Re:Invent Schedule planer update:
It’s back online 🎉
What a rollercoaster 🎢 ride today
If you haven’t already start planing your sessions today is the best day to start. Reservations are open and filling up fast.
Got my hands on a nice version of the best OS book ever written. It made me become the kernel engineer that I grew up as. It was essential in getting BSD 2.9 to run on the PDP11 that I inherited (Although the Multics papers had their influence as well).
A horrifying 1.8 km drop. It must have been terrifying. Just a reminder (for myself) that the "please keep your seatbelt fastened when seated" is a serious, possibly life-saving instruction.
Singapore Airlines flight
#SQ321
, operating from London (Heathrow) to Singapore on 20 May 2024, encountered severe turbulence en-route. The aircraft diverted to Bangkok and landed at 1545hrs local time on 21 May 2024.
We can confirm that there are injuries and one fatality on
If there is one thing I want you to take away from my keynote today, it is this.
#reinvent
#reinvent2020
(sorry twitter max video length cuts of the start.)
I am more than happy to keep on wearing a mask even if the local govs don't mandate it. I am a bit suprised how quickly people seem to revert to denial as their main health guidance.
#stayingalive
#020
#takecareofeachother
Amazon Future Engineer is a comprehensive childhood-to-career program to inspire, educate, and train children and young adults from underserved and low-income communities to pursue careers in computer science.
Getting excited for my
#AWS
#reinvent
keynote!! – on Dec. 2 from 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PST). This year marks our 10th re:Invent; time flies when you are having fun! You can still register for virtual re:Invent if you haven’t already:
#ICYMI
@AWScloud
Not even the Real players are protesting this goal.
@AFCAjax
got robbed. With many of these referee decisions you would think the UEFA really needs RMA to progress.
#AJARMA
❌❌❌
Congratulations, Luc
@donkersgood
, AWS Serverless Hero, for clinching the Go Build Award at
#reInvent2023
. His innovative work at
@PostNL
and his passion for sharing knowledge and making impact on the AWS community are truly inspiring. A massive shout out to all 253
#AWSHeroes
#awsdrinks
- The Serverless
Whatever drink you want, no matter how many you want at the same time, in any of the closeby bars, and only pay for how much you really drank, even it was just a sip.
(courtesy to
@Trek10inc
for the cartoon)
Dear fellow Europeans. I understand your 3 months of lock down frustration. But organizations like CoronaMadness protesting corona measures and argue to roll back to the old normal are dangerous to the health of all of us. Take one look at a country that is following your advice.
Honored to have been able to launch the Amazon Builders' Library, a collection of articles how Amazon architects, releases & operates technology, written by Amazon's senior builders. Amazing Material!
#AWS
to that one government who we offered massive modeling capacity to and decided they did not want to use "american" services: the definition of pandemic means "global", please let us help you. We have the models and the capacity and it is free. Please.
There is almost no part of our systems and Amazon's technology culture that does not have
@PeterVosshall
's finger prints all over it. Working with Peter was always a humbling experience, and we all have become better builders because of him. Good luck on your next voyage Peter!
Some personal news: I've retired from Amazon after over 21 years. I turned in my badge and access tokens yesterday afternoon and am starting a new chapter devoted to all of the things I love but never had quite enough time for.
Crossing off the items on the DB wishlist: Aurora Multi-Master, Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB Global Tables, DynamoDB backup & restore, Amazon Neptune - a fully managed Graph Database
I finally redesigned so it can be read on mobile. Dumped my 15 year old Movable Type template for
@GoHugoIO
. I got fed up with all the Ruby versions and depencies for
@jekyllrb
, so learned Go templates. (Yes
@QuinnyPig
I will fix the rss feed)
If you are using
@dropbox
and do not want 3rd party AI technology partners to have access to your dropbox files, flip this switch (on by default, or did I agree to this somewhere?) (web->account->settings-3rd party AI) /cc
@EU_EDPS
as cool as EKS is,
#AWS
Fargate is a massive shift in making containers easier to use. No container cluster is easier to manage than no cluster at all!
A fantastic retrospective from
#AWS
Sr. Principal Engineer
@molson
, who's been at the heart of scaling
#EBS
for over a decade. Marc shares hard-won lessons on driving continuous performance improvements - a must-read for cloud infrastructure nerds.
Dare, I appreciate your sentiment, but I knew exactly what contract I signed 17 years ago, which included a 6-12 month vacation if I wanted to join another major tech company. I was fine with it then, and still am now. No IQ test needed.
Amazon has now invoked non-competes on senior leaders going to both Google & Microsoft. At this point if you’re a senior person who accepts a job at Amazon, you’re failing an IQ test.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone sets a new bar for cloud object storage performance. By co-locating storage and compute, it removes network latency to achieve up to 10x faster data access compared to S3 Standard, at half the cost.
#aws
#reinvent2023