All Things Distributed

JULY 28, 2008

This page has some of the official material that can be used for conferences, interviews, etc. This is the official bio. Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon’s customers at a global scale.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 22, 2008

alpha IT journal.com I'm pleased to announce the launch of alphaITjournal.com , an online magazine focused on the execution, management and governance of IT investments that can produce outsized (or "alpha") returns. The mission and purpose are summarised in the welcome message on the site and in the press release that was issued in early July. There are a few things that I hope stand out about the site.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 14, 2008

One topic that I have been interested in for quite some time now is secondary education when it comes to web development and design. It is a very unfortunate truth that when it comes to web development, the curriculum is in serious need of some help. As a recently graduated student, I can reflect on both my training and the training of other people my age who attended other colleges for web development that I interacted with.

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Education Games Speed Design 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2008

What better way to pick up posting again than with following a meme. Nick Carr in Albums Going Steady describes the challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life." I actually do not have the problem described by Nick and others to really start with my birth year.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 25, 2008

For those of you interested in the details of last Sunday's Amazon S3 Availability issue you should read the detailed explanation posted at the AWS Status Dashboard. Root cause was single bit corruption of internal state messages that are distributed via Gossip techniques.

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