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AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2016 to 2023.
  • Presented by James Hamilton, VP & Distinguished Engineer at AWS
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

133K views9 years ago5 recommendations

Cloud and DevOpsSystems programmingAWSNetworking and protocolsScaling and large-scale architecture

James Hamilton explains the scale and design of AWS infrastructure, covering custom silicon, networking, power, and data center redundancy.

Learn more about AWS at: amzn.to/2g4uGgn Watch AWS VP & Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton kick off re:Invent 2016 discussing AWS innovation at scale. Also hear Tom Soderstrom talk about how NASA JPL is answering cosmic questions in new ways using AWS.

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent, enthusiastic overview of AWS infrastructure, custom silicon, and global networking scale.

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The keynote by James Hamilton1 is absolutely awesome. You can genuinely tell that James finds all this technology fascinating. He talks about fiber, networking, power, redundancy, scale all with utter enthusiasm. 1 link to this video
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James Hamilton 01 and others 234 have given pretty good overview over the years of the AWS infrastructure. 0 AWS Innovation at Scale (2014), link 1 Tuesday Night Live (2016), link to this video 2 Operation of the AWS Global Network (2019), link 3 Foundations of AWS Infrastructure (2018), link 4 Exploring the AWS Global Network (2018), link
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Watch this video from 2016 by James Hamilton at AWS Re:Invent link to this video It'll tell you lots about how AWS is built
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Mark Russinovich gives a good talk most years on the internals of Azure and the systems that run it. 1 is an example. Look for talks from other years as well. Meta also publishes a number of papers/blogs/OSS projects on their engineering site 2 James Hamilton of AWS gives a talk most years on their infrastructure. Worth watching multiple years 3. 1 link 2 link 3 link to this video
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On “Packets per Second Limitations in EC2”

James Hamilton talked about their commitment to 25GbE hardware at Reinvent in 2016. Fast forward to ~23m. link to this video
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