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AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems

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What it is

An AWS re:Invent 2014 talk on the core distributed systems primitives behind AWS and Amazon.com, such as consensus, key-value stores and transactional logging. It describes how AWS builds large services from a few common building blocks.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as insight into how AWS thinks about distributed systems and the difficulty of consensus.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “That presentation is full of great insight into how AWS thinks about distributed systems.”

    AWS talk on core distributed systems primitives and how AWS thinks about them

    rubiquity, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems”

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Topics: aws, consensus, paxos, distributed systems, infrastructure

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