Episode 40: Interview Werner Vogels

Recording Venue: JAOO 2006
Guest(s): Werner Vogels
Host(s): Markus
This episode is an interview with Werner Vogels, the CTO of amazon.com. We first talked about what scalability is, and which aspects there are to scalability. We then took a brief look at the technologies used at amazon, specifically, the middleware systems and the issue of vendor lock-in. Web services, and the role of SOA was the next topic. Then we covered what a service actually is add Werner explained the term “pizza teams”. Testing and Deployment was the next topic followed by a look at architectural characteristics of scalable systems, the value of simplicity and the CAP theorem. We concluded the discussion with a brief look at the future of distributed systems

Links:

• Amazon S3
• Werner Vogels’ Blog
• Elasitc Compute Cloud

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