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Werner Vogels
@Werner
CTO @ Amazon
Science & TechnologySeattle, WAallthingsdistributed.comJoined December 2006

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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!
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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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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
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In case you are planing your future: will still be there for you after 2023 #aws
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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
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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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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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"
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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: blog.github.com/2018-10-30-oct
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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.”
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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…
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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).
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Absolute brilliant answer by . I love the restaurant vs home cooking analogy.
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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. #CTOAdvisorStudio Full Interview: youtu.be/7JYhq-p0eY8
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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.
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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.
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#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)
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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-
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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.
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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
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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. geekwire.com/2021/microsoft
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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.
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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...
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I wonder if the senators understand that this means their web browsing history (including that done in "private mode") is now for sale
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Senate votes 50-48 to repeal Obama-era regulations on ISPs sharing customer data (@hshaban) buzzfeed.com/hamzashaban/th techmeme.com/170323/p11#a17
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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.
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