{"id":16,"date":"2006-07-12T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T10:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewansilver.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-07-12T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T10:33:28","slug":"geoff-arnold-goes-to-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/12\/geoff-arnold-goes-to-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Arnold goes to Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year they hired Pat Helland<\/tag><\/a> from Microsoft, now Werner Vogels<\/tag> and Amazon<\/tag> have got a new team member<\/a> and are clearly building a team of pretty bright people to work on the next step of distributed computing<\/tag> : dealing with SCALE<\/tag><\/strong>. It is interesting to see that Geoff Arnold<\/tag><\/a> is now making the trip from Sun<\/a> to Amazon<\/a> to work with Werner and the team.<\/p>\n

I think it is really cool when you can work on such large problems. Clearly there are only a few organisations that are facing these issues at the moment – Google and Amazon spring to mind – and I find it interesting that Geoff would move from Sun to Amazon. I think dealing with scale is going to become increasingly important for all businesses over time – and not just those web super giants that have to deal with it at the moment. It is going to require a total change in perspective to deal with it.<\/p>\n

The other interesting thing is how scale – once you are faced with super massive scale – can become a friend rather than a foe. Its a bit like applying some kind of martial arts move (scale ju-jitsu?) to the massive problem and allowing its own inertia to let you handle things. At very large size I can see how applying some fundamentally different thought processes – ie looking biology and taking a probablistic rather than command and control approach – scale suddenly becomes alot less scary (although that is not to say it becomes easier!)<\/p>\n

Interesting times – interesting problems! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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