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All Things Distributed
APRIL 27, 2011
To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. At werner.ly
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
These trade-offs have even impacted the way the lowest level building blocks in our computer architectures have been designed. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well.Â
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