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.
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Dear John, I know your targeting algorithm was cheap and thus not perfect, but I suggest to ask your money back from however sold it to you!
Dear cool folks at please let us know if there is anything we can do to help! (I wanted that drowzee)
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. t.co/LPZxMAlQkk
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Congrats to the Fulfillment teams for completing the migration off Oracle to 100% #AWS. #databasefreedom
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When you tell people in Amsterdam it is forbidden to light fireworks on NYE... ❌❌❌
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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!
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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
There is no compression algorithm for experience.
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arguably the most powerful tech company in the world hires engineers in their 60s. we should all learn from that redmonk.com/jgovernor/2017
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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. theinformation.com/articles/googl
¡Hola España! An AWS Region is coming to Spain!
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.
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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
Now that you have all these empty Amazon boxes so why not use them to send things to Goodwill and will pay
After many years at I can tell you that 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
Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.
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 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)
Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company recode.net/2018/4/9/17204
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.
Getting ready for tomorrow's #reinvent keynote. It will be quite different, I hope you will like it.
grateful for the great group of rockstar engineers, and in my #AWSreInvent keynote this morning. #21stcenturyarchitectures
In SF. Two people next to me (VC & founder?) are discussing their tech."But what makes it unique?" whispering "It is DECENTRALIZED" #killme
You asked for this, now go create serverless app with Go - Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
Excellent analysis by 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"
Of course Jeff, just tell me how much and I'll transfer it to the Nigerian Prince's account...
Expanding the AWS Cloud – An #AWS Region is coming to South Africa! - allthingsdistributed.com/2018/10/an-aws - #allthingsdistributed
Never let facts interrupt a "good story.” Tried to help reporter get it right, but clickbait won (cnbc.com/2018/10/23/ama). 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:
Who has leaked these announcements? 🤔
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Any predictions on new #AWS services being launched at #reinvent? The cloud sharks are placing their bets next week! bit.ly/3c4DoKg
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. aws.amazon.com/training/resta
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...
Reading the horrific stories from and 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.
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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.”
The 30th #AWS Region is now live in Hyderabad. A great day for innovators in India and our customers all around the world
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@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 '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
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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) twitter.com/kyleshevlin/st…
the 2017 letter to shareholders by on achieving and maintaining High Standards blog.aboutamazon.com/2017-letter-to
As always ' yearly letter to shareholders gives excellent insight into Amazon's long-term thinking. phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File? (PDF)
Anyone interested in helping to draft web4? And then working backwards from that to see how we could implement that?
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. amazonfutureengineer.com
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
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).
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.)
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What's the difference between an #Opensource conference such as #Kubecon and a vendor-centric conference such as #VMwareExplore? Take it from @kelseyhightower, who delivered the keynote at both.
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Full Interview: youtu.be/7JYhq-p0eY8
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Congrats to the Amazon S3 team on their baby turning into a teenager. 13 years - wow! - what an amazing #aws ride!
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Amazon Quantum Ledger Database QLDB - fully managed ledger database with a central trusted authority. #reInvent
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: go.aws/3FyTYif #ICYMI
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Admiral Grace Hopper will forever be an engineering superstar to all of us engineers. #ILookLikeAnEngineer
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.
Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
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.
#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 for the cartoon)
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 amzn.to/2LskWOC
Over 400 #reinvent sessions have been uploaded to the #AWS youtube channel. Enjoy! youtube.com/user/AmazonWeb
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
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Need multi-region and multi-master in your Managed NoSQL database? Announcing DynamoDB Global Tables #reInvent aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-
There is almost no part of our systems and Amazon's technology culture that does not have '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!
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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.
I cannot over-emphasize what how important Amazon Sagemaker is in turning every developer into a Machine Learning practitioner - #AWSreInvent
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Introducing Amazon SageMaker! A fully managed service to build, train & deploy machine learning models at scale. #reInvent amzn.to/2jv2eqW
Amazon has pledged to hire 25K veterans and train 10K in cloud computing. Veterans please apply amazon.jobs/en/military #VeteransDay #AWS
Now you can add a real button to anything digital - introducing the #AWS IoT Button aws.amazon.com/iot/button #gobuild
I finally redesigned allthingsdistributed.com so it can be read on mobile. Dumped my 15 year old Movable Type template for . I got fed up with all the Ruby versions and depencies for , so learned Go templates. (Yes I will fix the rss feed)
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!
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AWS Fargate -- Now you can run containers without having to deploy, manage, or update clusters or servers. #reInvent amzn.to/2jvbQlm
The has gone dark in remembrance of #ChrisCornell. Seattle mourns the loss of another one of its grunge sons.
Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database - #AWS #allthingsdistributed #techarchitecture #aurora allthingsdistributed.com/2019/03/Amazon
"Know Thy Complexities!" - The Big-O Complexity Cheat Sheet bigocheatsheet.com
my choice for HQ2 would now be Bali, but unfortunately it is not on the list... #summerbreak #lastdayinparadise
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.
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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.
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Happy 10th Anniversary Kindle. It unlocked a completely new way of reading. This is my first kindle and one of the first shipped.
I love this. I wonder what my equivalent of "This lamb is so undercooked, it’s following Mary to school!” would be. t.co/qWDFWSBdJy
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When have you last seen an Iron Lung? Not? Maybe because our parents thought it was a good idea to get vaccinated again Polio... I am at loss how to motivate people. Maybe following George Carlin, we should have a 24 hour TV station watching IC patients die in loneliness...
Meet Bottlerocket, a new free, Linux-based open source operating system that we designed at #AWS and optimized specifically for use as a container host.
I wonder if the senators understand that this means their web browsing history (including that done in "private mode") is now for sale
How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes #AWS
I am very excited to announce that we have the number one DJ in the world, , playing at #AWS re:Play. I can't wait to see what and have in store for us at the #reInvent2022 Party
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I was angry and annoyed by the lack of patience. In these days with about 10% inflation our elders have a very hard time. Lets be kind to them.
I was itching to ask my questions to dive into web3, but then two of my most respected engineers, and , did it for me. Thanks guys, have a happy holiday!