All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2006

Whenever I end up in Vegas I am continuously amazed by the magnitude of the way things are implemented here and at the same time the superficiality of it all. Normally I take a stroll north or south of the strip to ground me and get back some sense of reality.

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JUNE 18, 2006

I am on the road this week (I am speaking at Oracle GMM, Garner Enterpise Architecture & Supernova). The first stop is in Las Vegas. This is on the sports board in Vegas: Personally I think the Argentinians look a lot more on fire than the Brasileiros. Of course I am not rooting for either team.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 5, 2006

it is good to now and then be reminded of what the real important things in live are.

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JUNE 1, 2006

Building systems that can guarantee performance and availability while scaling up to handle exponential growth in datasets and user requests is still very much a Dark Art. It is an art we master quite well by now at Amazon but it took a lot of growing pains to get to this level of sophistication.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2006

The phone and cable companies will fundamentally alter the Internet in America unless Congress acts to stop them. They have the market power, and regulatory permission to restrict American consumers’ access to broadband Internet content, including music and movies, and have announced their plans to do so. There is a lot of freedom at Gnomedex for the discussion leaders to address the topics that are on their minds.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 23, 2006

The coffee breaks are the best parts of the conference I stole this remark from Harrison Owen. His observation was that the traditional way people come together to discuss issues was not very effective, but that they all thought the coffee breaks were the place where all the action happened.

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JUNE 3, 2006

The important part about the laptop with 243,000 customer records including credit cards stolen is not the theft itself. It is what the heck these credit card numbers were doing on the laptop in the first place. They should never, ever have been there. There is no reason they should have left the ultra secure location they were kept in.

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