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All Things Distributed is a collaborative project created by Amazon veteran, Adrian Cockcroft that follows the development of hardware, software, and social culture surrounding cloud computing and distributed systems. The website talks about various tech topics including microservices, containers, serverless computing, and more. It also covers case studies and best practices in building and maintaining large systems scalable over cloud environment, as well as conferences, interviews, and other means of sharing knowledge across the tech industry.
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RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Aug 19, 2024

Thread Of Notes

Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond

We’ve caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise. Where interdisciplinary cooperation influences discovery and creation at an unrelenting pace. In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around. This cycle will create massive opportunities to solve problems that truly matter.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/11/tech-predictions-for-2026-and-beyond.html allthingsdistributed.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Nov 25, 2025

Building with purpose: Stories from the Now Go Build CTO Fellows

This new five-part mini-series follows technology leaders from social impact organizations solving humanity's hardest problems - from crisis zones to community centers. Watch how they use drones to map disaster zones, AI/ML to predict food shortages, and open data to save lives.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/07/building-with-purpose-stories-from-the-now-go-build-cto-fellows.html allthingsdistributed.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 7, 2025

Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

AWS Senior Principal Engineers, Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes, take us inside Aurora DSQL's development: scaling write operations without two-phase commit, overcoming garbage collection hurdles, and embracing Rust for both data and control planes.
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • May 27, 2025

Introducing the inaugural Now Go Build CTO Fellows

Earlier this year, I announced the Now Go Build CTO Fellowship. A program designed to empower leaders from nonprofits and social impact organizations solving hard human problems. Today, I'm excited to introduce the first two cohorts, focusing on Disaster Management and Climate Resilience.
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Nov 21, 2024

AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it

On AWS Lambda's 10th anniversary, I'm publishing the internal PR/FAQ that helped launch this groundbreaking service. This document provides insight into the customer problems we observed in the early 2010s and our vision for serverless computing. Readers will find annotations throughout, offering a glimpse into how our long-term thinking has influenced Lambda's evolution over the past decade.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/11/aws-lambda-turns-10-a-rare-look-at-the-doc-that-started-it.html allthingsdistributed.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Nov 14, 2024

Empowering builders with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

Builders are at the heart of AWS. Most recently, I visited Malaysia, the location of the newest AWS Region, our 34th globally, and home to a rapidly evolving technology sector, where businesses of all sizes are proving that solving hard human problems can be a profitable business model.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/empowering-builders-with-new-aws-asia-pacific-malaysia-region.html allthingsdistributed.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Aug 29, 2024

Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS

Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has evolved to meet the needs of our customers.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/continuous-reinvention-a-brief-history-of-block-storage-at-aws.html allthingsdistributed.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Aug 22, 2024

Standing on the shoulders of giants: Colm on constant work

The Builders' Library gathers the expertise of Amazon's most experience builders in one place. One article that really got me thinking was Colm MacCárthaigh's "Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee" which is about an anti-fragility pattern that he developed for building simple, more robust, and cost-effective systems.
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/11/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-colm-on-constant-work.html allthingsdistributed.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Nov 15, 2023

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