CTO, Amazon

Werner Vogels

Vogels has championed designing for failure at internet scale, eventual consistency, and the you-build-it-you-run-it ownership model.

Essential reading: “Eventually Consistent”
All Things Distributed
Models in this guide: 2

No. 032Distributed Systems & Data
Eventual Consistency
Replicas may disagree for a while but converge when updates stop. Design the business around the window.
No. 127From the Masters
Everything Fails, All the Time
At scale, failure is the normal state. Design for it rather than hoping to prevent it.