Paper every day. Day Five: On Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services
Link to Paper This paper is a list of recommendations for running a large-scale system that aims to keep quality high and costs low. The author comes from the Windows Live Services Platform but this might as well be read as an Amazon internal guide since I didn’t see a thing in this list that we don’t do (or aim to do) in AWS. EDIT: Of course all these things sound familiar! The author is James Hamilton! He’s a VP and distinguished engineer here at AWS, I know him from leading the weekly AWS Ops Review meeting. ...