CTO @ Amazon
Seattle, WA
Joined December 2006
Zak van der Merwe has spent 14 years building control planes at AWS. His blog is a candid look at what happens when your bookkeeping layer has to keep up with the scale of the cloud, and why some of the most interesting problems in distributed systems often hide in the most
A excellent conversation with
@clare_liguori. She really is in the trenches on developers support for Agents and on Kiro.
If only I was looking for another job...
Absolutely worth a read if you are into modern, large-scale, systems design: Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
I am not a big fan of doing this client-side, for a whole slew of reasons, but this is impressive engineering by the
@Zalandoteam. I like the "lessons learned" they conclude with.