Werner Vogels: Web-scale Computing - the Foundation for Internet Scale Applications.
Abstract
Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down in a moment's
notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it's essential in today's
business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young
business unexpectantly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to
launch. There are many challenges of building a reliable, flexible architecture
that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today's internet business. In this
presentation I will provide the blueprint for "Web-Scale Computing" -- enabling
businesses to outsource the undifferentiated "heavy lifting" and implement an
elastic business model that can quickly respond to demand. This allows
businesses to compete on ideas, instead of resources. Amazon.com spent twelve
years and over $2 billion developing a world-class technology and content
platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day.
Today, Amazon Web Services exposes this technology, through a collection of
open APIs, allowing developers to build applications leveraging the same
robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon's business.
Biography
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com
where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to
continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global
scale. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientists at Cornell
University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects
that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise
computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in
companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.
Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored
many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems
technologies for enterprise computing.
