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Werner Vogels

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Werner Vogels

@Werner

CTO @ Amazon

Seattle, WA

allthingsdistributed.com

Joined December 2006

Werner Vogels
@Werner
Jul 24
If only I was looking for another job...
Karun Singh
@karun1710
Jul 23
We're hiring a Research Engineer at @Arsenal ⚽🔴⚪ to work directly with our Men's First Team! We're building state-of-the-art AI models for the football domain. This role will focus on building the application layer for our research to advance coaching and analysis workflows.
Werner Vogels
@Werner
Jul 21
Absolutely worth a read if you are into modern, large-scale, systems design: Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
Marc Brooker
@MarcJBrooker
Jul 20
Replying to @MarcJBrooker
Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.13276 And my blog post about it here: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/1…
Werner Vogels
@Werner
Jul 2
I am not a big fan of doing this client-side, for a whole slew of reasons, but this is impressive engineering by the @Zalando team. I like the "lessons learned" they conclude with.
engineering.zalando.com
Zalando Engineering Blog - Client-Side Load Balancing at a Million Requests Per Second
How we built an in-process client-side load balancer for a million requests per second of internal fan-out traffic, what we layered on top (N-ring fade-in, occupancy-based bounded load, and...
Werner Vogels
@Werner
Jun 30
Two-pizza culture was never about feeding hungry engineers. It was about ownership, speed, and not being bogged down by bureaucracy. Working backwards from the customer and putting pen to paper have always been our way of forcing clarity of thought. But the industry is changing,
A return to two-pizza culture
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Werner Vogels
@Werner
Jun 30
It was a disgrace. Morocco deserved to win, as the Dutch played not to lose. With a depleted midfield, there was no feeding of the forwards. If you have 9 Premier League players in the starting 11 you would expect they could handle a physical playing opponent better. No guts, no
11tegen11
@11tegen11
Jun 30
It was really really bad.
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