The real AWS Gurus: Watch/read this 1st! Under the Covers of AWS: Core Distributed Systems Primitives That Power Our Platform




(Photo: A different swami)

Every computer scientist trying to learn AWS should read this presentation as these guys explain the history behind the AWS computing platform in terms of traditional distributed systems theory including protocols etc  :-)

Under the Covers of AWS: Core Distributed Systems Primitives That Power Our Platform | AWS re:Invent 2014

  1. 1. November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV Al Vermeulen and Swami Sivasubramanian

Paxos and Gossip protocols used in AWS: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/spot302-under-the-covers-of-aws-core-distributed-systems-primitives-that-power-our-platform-aws-reinvent-2014

Even better, the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVvFVwyElLY&feature=youtu.be 

And a blog by Swami: https://scalingsystems.com

(I think I've found the real cloud "guru" !!!!)

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/04/dr_swami.html

And a few interesting things by/about Allan:

https://vimeo.com/85880714

http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2001906476_geniusal18.html

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