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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

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Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. No gatekeepers” liberates the innovative processes and opens the door for many unexpected inventions, which are sure to follow.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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