tl;dr:Werner, the CTO at Amazon, explores note-taking. He values the Cornell Method for its structure and analog approach: each notebook page has 4 sections: (1) Title. (2) Notes. (3) Keywords and questions. (4) Summary. Werner discusses potential AI enhancements and believes handwritten note-taking increases comprehension and retention.
tl;dr:"I always urge builders to consider the evolution of their systems over time and make sure the foundation is such that you can change and expand them with the minimum number of dependencies." Werner discusses being less dogmatic about architecture allowing it to evolve with its needs.
tl;dr:The CTO at Amazon elaborates on the following: (1) Cloud technologies will redefine sports as we know them. (2) Simulated worlds will reinvent the way we experiment. (3) A surge of innovation in smart energy. (4) The upcoming supply chain transformation. (5) Custom silicon goes mainstream.
tl;dr:"Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon’s e-commerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed."
tl;dr:Werner received a call to scale the data model that governors were using to plan their response to COVID-19. He talks through how he did so with the Amazon team.
tl;dr:Fascinating run-through of how AWS thinks about security at scale, starting with the Shared Responsibility Model where AWS is responsible for security of the cloud and customers are responsible for security in the cloud.