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AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

Amazon Web Services · 133.2K views · 2016-11-30 · 1:33:27

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Overview

James Hamilton's Tuesday Night Live keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016, touring AWS infrastructure at scale including networking, power and custom silicon. It also features NASA JPL's Tom Soderstrom.

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HN treats Hamilton's annual talks as the best window into how AWS regions and hardware are actually built.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2016–2023

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nodesocket · 2016-12 · Strong recommendation

The keynote by James Hamilton[1] is absolutely awesome. You can genuinely tell that James finds all this technology fascinating. He talks about fiber, networking, power, redundancy, scale all with utter enthusiasm. [1] [VIDEO]

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mackid · 2023-12 · Recommendation

Mark Russinovich gives a good talk most years on the internals of Azure and the systems that run it. [1] is an example. Look for talks from other years as well. Meta also publishes a number of papers/blogs/OSS projects on their engineering site [2] James Hamilton of AWS gives a talk most years on their infrastructure. Worth watching multiple years [3]. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [VIDEO]

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EwanToo · 2021-07 · Recommendation

Watch this video from 2016 by James Hamilton at AWS Re:Invent [VIDEO] It'll tell you lots about how AWS is built

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