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You're probably familiar with the 80-20 rule: when 80% of the X stems from only 20% of the Y. For example, 80% of your revenue comes from only 20% of your customer, or 80% of the logs that you're storing are generated from only 20% of the services. Talk to anybody who is looking to…
Marc's Blog About Me My name is Marc Brooker. I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in brewing, cooking and skiing. I'm currently an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, where I lead engineering on AWS Lambda and our other serverless products. Before that, I worked on EC2 and EBS. All opinions are my own. And it looks pretty hard. In his classic paper How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus Butler Lampson laid out a pattern that's become v...