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This year marks Elastic Block Store's (EBS) 16th anniversary, and I've asked Sr. Principal Engineer, Marc Olson, to write about his experiences working on the foundational #AWS service for more than a decade. Marc provides an insider's view of how the EBS team iteratively scaled storage performance over more than a decade - from spinning disks to adopting SSDs, custom networking protocols, offload hardware, and more. Beyond the technical details, he shares insights on organizational practices, empowering engineers, continuous improvement through measurement, and fostering an innovative culture. It's a unique behind-the-scenes look at building massively scalable services at AWS. Whether you're an experienced systems engineer or just curious about large-scale software architecture, Marc's guest post is well worth a read from one of our tenured engineers. Read the full post on All Things Distributed: https://lnkd.in/d_NBFjkA
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2mo
Great post!
Uriel Bitton
2mo
The progress which EBS has gone through is groundbreaking and inspiring. An incredible journey. Congrats to you and the AWS team behind EBS Werner Vogels
...and in there....one takeaway for many: "The thing that made this possible is that we designed our system from the start with non-disruptive maintenance events in mind." Good stuff indeed.
Eugene Mischenko
2mo
16 years of EBS, that's quite a milestone! Scaling storage performance is no small feat. I'm curious to read about the journey from spinning disks to custom hardware. In my experience, the tech behind the scenes is often as fascinating as the end product. The organizational insights sound particularly valuable too - always interesting to see how different companies approach innovation.
Krishna I
2mo
Amazing insights into technology at scale as well as tech management skills
Srinivas Sarathy
2mo
Great refresher on compute, storage and I/O optimization.
Han Cao
1mo
nice bed reading
Michael Black
2mo
Great read! Diving deep into EBS and the scale of this is unreal.
Wow, it's amazing to hear about the evolution of EBS over the past 16 years! Marc's insights on scaling storage performance and fostering an innovative culture are valuable for any engineer. Werner Vogels
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1moWait a minute 🤔 how can a post about something as plain as block storage be relevant these days? It has no #GenAI revelations! And worse: 4,802 words! Read it - if you are not a systems engineer or architect but, for example, involved in decisions about the future of your IT. Reflect on the DNA that this company apparently is made of. Remember that this is ‘only’ their story about ‘just’ block storage (you know, disk drives). #cloud #innovation #scale