All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

Matt Welsh s thesis work at Berkeley was on building high-performance internet services. I have been a fan of much of Matts work as he combined common sense engineering with excellent intellectual innovation. SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer.

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Architecture AWS Internet Internet 98

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. This was a big jump to make, I had to wear a suit to work every day, and spend all my time paired up with a sales rep visiting customers.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump! Let’s fix that!

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, I want to focus on helping app developers who have chosen to develop their apps on AWS and have in the past developed some of the seminal apps of our times on AWS, such as Netflix, AirBnB, or Pinterest or created internet connected devices powered by AWS such as Alexa and Dropcam.

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