All Things Distributed

Zak van der Merwe has spent his entire career at AWS building control planes. First for EC2 and now for DSQL. On the surface, the control plane looks quite boring: it records what should exist and reconciles that with what actually does. Nobody leaves sch

What made the Quick desktop team successful is the same thing that has always produced the best work I

The subtle inventiveness that reduced cold start setup from seconds to 200μs.

Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files

Fear is actually a pretty good signal that you are pushing into the unknown, that real growth doesn't happen without a bit of that associated discomfort, and that it's worth becoming aware when it happens. Aware enough to consider actually leaning into it

We've caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI

While many of us chase the latest tech trends, innovative builders in Sub-Saharan Africa are leveraging a nearly 30-year-old messaging protocol to process hundreds of billions in transactions annually, reminding us that the best technology isn

He has heard the whispers,

Building with Amazon SageMaker AI should be about innovation, not wrestling with development environments or building bespoke observability systems. Here

AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL