All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services.

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Soon after the financial crisis began in 2008, companies shifted attention from finance to operations. Finance had fallen out of favour: risk capital dried up, asset prices collapsed and capital sought safe havens like US Treasurys. The crisis also ushered in a period of tepid growth undermined by persistent economic uncertainty. This limited the financial options companies could use to juice returns, so they focused on investing in operations to create efficiencies or fight for market share.

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