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Velocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"

O'Reilly · 51.9K views · 2011-06-20 · 15:14

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Overview

Amazon's Jon Jenkins at Velocity 2011 on how operations can drive revenue and on Amazon's highly available, autonomous architectures. It includes details on deployment frequency and Amazon's move to AWS.

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HN commenters cite it as a primary source for facts such as Amazon.com running on AWS and its very frequent deployments.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2012–2018

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aphexairlines · 2018-06 · Recommendation

Amazon describes its internal service architecture here: [VIDEO] Services use an internal tool called Apollo to describe the service, deploy it to EC2 VMs, and auto-scale. Apollo inspired AWS CodeDeploy and AWS AutoScaling. Services are reachable via load balancer sets similar to AWS ELB/ALB/NLB. You reach a service by the LB-set's DNS name. If you don't want to use AWS or AWS-specific deployment tools, you could use Puppet Pipelines to do the same on Google Cloud or Azure. Puppet Pipelines was built by people who previously built some of those internal Amazon tools and offers similar functionality but cross-cloud. And if you want even fewer moving parts, just go PaaS or serverless.

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alberth · 2017-03 · Reference

Off topic: does google.com run on GCP? I ask because since 2010, Amazon.com has been running on AWS. [VIDEO] (Around 7m30s into video)

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mrjatx · 2014-12 · Reference

Geez, oh yes. They built their platform and decided to start reselling it. That's why Netflix, Pintrest, Airbnb, Expedia, Foursquare, NASA, the MLB all use AWS. They converted 100% in 2011 according to Jon Jenkins [VIDEO]

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