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Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"

O'Reilly · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

James Hamilton of AWS gives a Velocity 2010 keynote on datacenter infrastructure innovation, focused on power and cooling costs and a breakdown of where datacenter spending goes.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it for Hamilton's datacenter cost breakdown and as a primary source for claims about power versus hardware costs.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “You should check out his Velocity talk for more (about 5 minutes in)”

    Hamilton's datacenter cost breakdown talk with the spreadsheet assumptions behind the numbers

    bbgm, 2010-11 · Recommendation · in “Datacenter Power Efficiency”

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Topics: james hamilton, aws, datacenter power, cooling, cost analysis

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