As re:Invent 2024 approaches, the number of updates from AWS is overwhelming. Not surprising, given their sheer size, but still. This post go.aws/49913G1 says that they've had 197 new launches

#AWS #AWSreInvent

An interesting read about stream processing platform for user personalization built by Airbnb bit.ly/3CEQVsF that is based on #Kafka and #Flink

There are plenty of people writing about the recent Netflix outage, instead I’d like to share their latest engineering blog post bit.ly/3ZbIyxp about distributed counters. Interestingly, they didn't just explain their design,but went through a few approaches and their pros & cons #distributedsystems

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable," said Leslie Lamport - one of the pioneers who laid the very foundations of distributed system theory
#distributedsystems #LeslieLamport

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

1 The network is reliable
2 Latency is zero
3 Bandwidth is infinite
4 The network is secure
5 Topology doesnt change
6 There is one administrator
7 Transport cost is zero
8 The network is homogeneous

formulated in 90s but still relevant #DistributedSystems