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Greenwater, Washington: an Availability Story Summary Marc Brooker discusses defining and designing for availability that takes people into account, including examples of massive-scale cloud systems designed using these principles. Bio Marc Brooker is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services, currently focussed on database services. He’s been at AWS for 12 years, and has worked on EC2, EBS, Lambda, and IoT. He’s interested in distributed systems, databases, serverless, and economics. Marc has a PhD in EE from the University of Cape Town. About the conference QCon Plus is a virtu...

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...