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Amazon's Werner Vogels on Large Scale Systems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the horses-mouth dept.

ChelleChelle writes "When it comes to managing and deploying large scale systems and networks, discipline and focus matter more than specific technologies. In a conversation with ACM Queuecast host Mike Vizard, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says the key to success is to have a 'relentless commitment to a modular computer architecture that makes it possible for the people who build the applications to also be responsible for running and deploying those systems within a common IT framework.'"

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  1. Good Computing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Best question in the interview (page 3):

    "MV: Given the size and scope of Amazon, there's a lot of talk in the industry about good computing. Most of the talk is around scientific applications. Do you see good computing playing a role at Amazon in the future?"

    Actually, no... Amazon likes bad computing.

  2. Re:scale? by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . .apparently most people here at slashdot didn't already know this.

    They're all busy trying to integrate Java and XML.

    KFG