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

Amazon Web Services · talk · Watch on YouTube

Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityDistributed systemsSemiconductors & chip manufacturing

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “The keynote by James Hamilton[1] is absolutely awesome.”

    Enthusiastic James Hamilton tour of fiber, networking, power, and scale.

    nodesocket, 2016-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Links to YouTube Recordings of AWS re:Invent Sessions”

  2. “More info here if you want to see how regions are structured at a high level of detail”

    Detailed overview of how AWS regions are structured.

    strong_silent_t, 2018-07 · Recommendation · in “Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter”

  3. “have given pretty good overview over the years of the AWS infrastructure.”

    One of several good overviews of AWS infrastructure.

    ignoramous, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region”

  4. “It'll tell you lots about how AWS is built”

    Explains how AWS is built.

    EwanToo, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring”

  5. “Worth watching multiple years”

    Annual Hamilton talk on AWS infrastructure.

    mackid, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “The art of high performance computing”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: aws, james hamilton, datacenters, custom silicon, networking

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