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Amazon Aurora development team wins the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award

All Things Distributed

A few months ago, I wrote the post " Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed acloud-native relational database ," and now I'm excited to share some news about the people behind the service. This week, the developers of Amazon Aurora have won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award.

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Automating chaos experiments in production

The Morning Paper

Automating chaos experiments in production Basiri et al., ICSE 2019. Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level? This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses.

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