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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. Comments (). Gray and David R.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture

All Things Distributed

I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. Comments (). Staged Event-Driven Architecture.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I had to setup a week of talks by all the relevant product teams, with a hundred or so of the most experienced systems engineers from all over the world as an audience. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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