All Things Distributed

AUGUST 23, 2006

I have been easing my way back into Amazon life by visiting the Amazon Development Center Scotland (ADCS), located in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Before joining Amazon I was always skeptical whether distributing development could actually work. The overhead in communication, lack of quality personal contact and handling time-zones always seemed like barriers that were too high to overcome, and I have seen many cases fail.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 14, 2006

I have been off the grid in the old world and will remain so until the end of the month. If you are waiting for responses to emails, postings, approvals or comments; have patience.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 4, 2006

Last week I gave a keynote at the ACM Principles of Distributed Computing Conference (PODC) on the topic of technology transfer. My choice of topic was triggered by recent presentations by a number of other research luminaries, who had remarked that the distributed computing research community had failed to make its mark; lots of good ideas, little impact.

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