AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
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On AWS Lambda's 10th anniversary, I'm publishing the internal PR/FAQ that helped launch this groundbreaking service. This document provides insight into the customer problems we observed in the early 2010s and our vision for serverless computing. Readers will find annotations throughout,...
on Fri, 9PM
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A deep dive on why we changed Amazon S3's consistency model
on Sep 8
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
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Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has...
on Aug 25
The Distributed Computing Manifesto
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Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed.
on Aug 5
Introducing Distill CLI: An efficient, Rust-powered tool for media summarization
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After a few code reviews from Rustaceans at Amazon and a bit of polishing, I'm ready to share the Distill CLI. An open-source tool written in Rust for summarizing meetings and other media that uses AWS services, such as S3, Transcribe, and Bedrock.
on Jun 26
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As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes.
on May 29
Hacking our way to better team meetings
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My team and I set out to build a simple note taking aide, which transcribes and summarizes our meetings using Bedrock. Today, we’re making the proof of concept available to everyone.
on May 9
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I was putting together a short panel presentation on the role of a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. The first thing that always comes up when you want to discuss the role of a CTO is that...
on Mar 31
District heating: Using data centers to heat communities
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An inside look at the Tallaght District Heating Scheme, where Heat Works is using recycled heat from an AWS data center to warm a community in Dublin, Ireland.
on Mar 14
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
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Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.
on Jan 21
Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond
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The coming years will be filled with innovation in areas designed to democratize access to technology and help us keep up with the increasing pace of every-day life -- and it starts with Generative AI.
on Dec 21
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A crowd sourced collection of classic Operating Systems books.
on Dec 18
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work
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The Builders' Library gathers the expertise of Amazon's most experience builders in one place. One article that really got me thinking was Colm MacCárthaigh's "Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee" which is about an anti-fragility pattern that he developed for building simple,...
on Nov 16, 2023
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Bloom Filters
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This weekend I will be reading the 1970 paper by Burton Bloom on his space-efficient probabilistic datastructure for scalable set management
on Nov 9, 2023