All Things Distributed

An inside look at the Tallaght District Heating Scheme, where Heat Works is using recycled heat from an AWS data center to warm a community in Dublin, Ireland.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/03/district-heating-using-data-centers-to-heat-communities.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

After a busy conference season, I've taken some time to catch up on reading and make a dent in the pile of books on my nightstand. Here's what I've started, finished, and picked up since re:Inven...

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/02/reading-list-since-reinvent.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

The coming years will be filled with innovation in areas designed to democratize access to technology and help us keep up with the increasing pace of every-day life -- and it starts with Generati...

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/11/tech-predictions-for-2024-and-beyond.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

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 ...

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/11/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-colm-on-constant-work.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

It is time to celebrate EC2-Classic, which defined early cloud computing, and which is finally retiring.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/09/farewell-ec2-classic.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-operating-a-pretty-big-storage-system.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

As we are about to start the planning meetings for 2024 at AWS, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I take notes.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/06/a-few-words-on-taking-notes.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/monoliths-are-not-dinosaurs.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

For the season finale of Now Go Build, I traveled to Arizona, to see first-hand how autonomous trucking has the potential to revolutionize the global supply chain.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/05/now-go-build-s03e06-can-autonomous-trucks-transform-global-supply-chains.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss

Developer tools are one area where generative AI is already having a tangible impact on productivity and speed, and it's the reason I'm excited about Amazon CodeWhisperer.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/04/how-ai-coding-companions-will-change-the-way-developers-work.html?utm_campaign=inbound&utm_source=rss