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Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (1998)

by Dr Werner Vogels - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ allthingsdistributed.com published 2022-11-1617 min read

Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed.

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