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AWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures (ARC338)

Amazon Web Services · talk · Watch on YouTube

Distributed systemsCloud, DevOps & reliability

What it is

An AWS re:Invent 2018 talk on how AWS limits the blast radius of failures. It covers design techniques such as cell-based architecture and shuffle sharding.

Why Hacker News recommends it

It is the go-to reference whenever HN discusses cell-based architecture and outage isolation, as an explanation straight from AWS engineers.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Peter Vosshall (co-creator of Dynamo [5]) presenting "cell-based" design in-use at AWS.”

    Vosshall presents cell-based design in use at AWS.

    ignoramous, 2019-03 · Recommendation · in “An introduction to distributed systems (2017)”

  2. “This YouTube video[1] of a re:invent presentation does a great job of explaining it.”

    Explains cell-based architecture; cell section starts around minute 20.

    talawahtech, 2020-11 · Recommendation · in “Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region”

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Topics: cell-based architecture, blast radius, shuffle sharding, aws, resilience, availability

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