J and I and Me
2011-05-24
  adesso sponsored talk by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at JUG Berlin Brandenburg
On May 17th adesso AG sponsored an Amazon event at Java User Group Berlin Brandenburg. Today, Amazon is more than an online book store. Since 2006 Amazon.com, through Amazon Web Services LLC, has been offering developer customers access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform.

After an introduction by me Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, gave the first talk of the evening.

He introduced the audience to the original Amazon IT system. Realizing that Amazon’s growth potential was limited due to the way the system was built, Amazon changed the system’s architecture drastically. Even the organizational structure was changed, forming teams that would each be responsible for one specified business service unit- including the development of the service as well as its operation.

However, even after the reorganization the engineers spent 70% of their time on scaling the infrastructure and only 30% on creating the new business logic. So the next step was to create a platform that would eliminate this burden and at the same time wouldn’t restrict the engineers. This was one of the starting points of Amazon Web Services (AWS) e.g. for virtual computers (EC2) and storage (S3).

Later on, services like SimpleDB - a very scalable data store - were developed. The current numbers for the services are very impressive: S3 currently stores 339 billion objects and every day Amazon adds the equivalent amount of server capacity to AWS that was once used to run all of Amazon in the year 2000 – when it was a $2.76 billion USD enterprise.

Next to talk was Attila Narin, Senior Manager at the Solutions Architecture of AWS. He gave an interesting presentation on the architectural principles for applications in the Cloud.

Our third guest speaker, Carlos Conde, showed the employment of Amazon Elastic Beanstalk which is an impressively easy to use infrastructure for Java applications.

With well over 150 participants the event was well received and gave a good insight into AWS and its Cloud services. The guest speaker’s talks emphasized the importance of Cloud services being the infrastructure of the next generation Dr. Werner Vogels gave an entertaining look behind the scenes of Amazon, its infrastructure and its Cloud offerings.

Thanks to all involved for making this possible!

Labels: , , ,

  10:00
Bookmark and Share
Comments: Kommentar veröffentlichen

<< Home
J for Java | I for Internet, iMac, iPod and iPad | Me for me

ARCHIVES
Juni 2005 / Juli 2005 / August 2005 / September 2005 / Oktober 2005 / November 2005 / Dezember 2005 / Januar 2006 / Februar 2006 / März 2006 / April 2006 / Mai 2006 / Juni 2006 / Juli 2006 / August 2006 / September 2006 / Oktober 2006 / November 2006 / Dezember 2006 / Januar 2007 / Februar 2007 / März 2007 / April 2007 / Mai 2007 / Juni 2007 / Juli 2007 / August 2007 / September 2007 / Oktober 2007 / November 2007 / Dezember 2007 / Januar 2008 / April 2008 / Mai 2008 / Juni 2008 / August 2008 / September 2008 / November 2008 / Januar 2009 / Februar 2009 / März 2009 / April 2009 / Mai 2009 / Juni 2009 / Juli 2009 / August 2009 / September 2009 / Oktober 2009 / November 2009 / Dezember 2009 / Januar 2010 / Februar 2010 / März 2010 / April 2010 / Mai 2010 / Juli 2010 / August 2010 / Oktober 2010 / Januar 2011 / Februar 2011 / März 2011 / April 2011 / Mai 2011 / Juni 2011 / August 2011 / September 2011 / November 2011 / Februar 2012 / April 2012 / Mai 2012 / April 2013 / Mai 2013 / Juni 2013 / Januar 2015 / Juli 2015 / Februar 2016 /

Links

Twitter
Google +
Slideshare
Prezi
XING
LinkedIn
Das Spring Buch


Feeds

Feedburner


Impressum
Betreiber und Kontakt:
Eberhard Wolff
Leobschützer Strasse 22
13125 Berlin
E-Mail-Adresse: eberhard.wolff@gmail.com

Verantwortlich für journalistisch-redaktionelle Inhalte:
Eberhard Wolff