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Happy 15th Birthday EC2!
August 25th, 2021 marks the 15-year anniversary for EC2. Contemplating the anniversary has me ...
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Tesla Project Dojo Overview
A couple of days back, Ganesh Venkataramanan, leader of the Tesla Dojo project, announced the ...
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Reinventing Operational Resiliency
The cloud helps organizations achieve unmatched resiliency at scale. This is a quick write-up I ...
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Human Race Priorities?
I was recently in a super interesting discussion mostly focused on energy efficiency and, as ...
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How Complex Systems Fail
This is a simple little article that’s worth reading. I don’t agree with every ...
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Anandtech on AWS Graviton2
Yesterday, Anandtech published what is, by far, the most detailed write-up on the AWS ...
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AWS Graviton2
In November of last year, AWS announced the first ARM-based AWS instance type (AWS Designed ...
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2019 SIGMOD Systems Award
At SIGMOD 2019 in Amsterdam last month it was announced that the Amazon Aurora service has been ...
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2019 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award
Back in late 2008 and early 2009, I had a few projects underway. One was investigating the ...
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Tesla Full Self Driving ASIC
Tesla hosted Autonomy Day for Analyst on Monday April 22nd beginning at 11am. The video is ...
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AWS Nitro System
At Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton at the 2016 AWS re:Invent conference, I introduced ...
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Collision at Sea: USS Fitzgerald
At 1:30:34AM on Jun 17, 2017 the USS Fitzgerald and the container ship ACX Crystal came ...
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AWS Inferentia Machine Learning Processor
On Monday night I described AWS Graviton , the general-purpose AWS-developed server processor ...
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AWS Designed Processor: Graviton
This is an exciting day and one I’ve been looking forward to for more than a decade. As many of ...
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Choose Technology Suppliers Carefully
Many years ago, Amazon chose to use Oracle database products to run the business. At the time ...
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2017 Turing Award: Dave Patterson & John Hennessy
Earlier this year, Berkeley’s Dave Patterson and Stanford’s John Hennessy won the 2017 Turing ...
