I got to give a talk at FAST about how hard drives work, how millions of hard drives work, how an organization with millions of hard drives works, and then a little about how i work in an organization with millions of hard drives.
Andrew Warfield
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Andrew Warfield
@andywarfield
I work on storage at Amazon. Recovering Professor. Recovering entrepreneur. Father of three. Tinkerer. indirectbranch.com
Joined June 2009
- Werner asked me to put together a written version of some of the material from the FAST talk that I did earlier this year. The article is up this morning on #allthingsdistributed.Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 – A unique perspective by #AWS Distinguished Engineer @andywarfield on what it means to scale systems, yourself and others. #allthingsdistributed #S3 allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/buildi…
- This morning I'm coming to terms that it's been 20 years since we wrote the Xen paper. That sure went by fast!The 2023 @ACMSIGOPS Hall of Fame award goes to the authors of the paper “Xen and the Art of Virtualization”. The paper was presented at @sospconf 2003. Congratulations to the authors! The award was announced at @sospconf #sosp2023 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/94… #award #HallOfFame
- This week I've started a new job as a senior principal engineer at Amazon S3. Based on the 1st day, it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun!
- I am so excited at our launch of S3 Express One Zone. This product has been an incredible amount of really innovative work from an incredible team and it's wonderful to finally be able to share it with customers!
- James and I wrote a blog post about the team’s SOSP paper, and where we are headed with automated reasoning in S3. We’re using math to help our engineers move faster at scale, and it’s really cool to see it taking hold.
- My grad students left a tenure congratulations in my office today. I think they've figured me out.
- Looking forward to the context switch optimization track at OSDI this year.
- It's interesting how building a startup gives you a new respect for the big incumbents that were startups long before you.
- A remarkable number of OSDI submissions have discovered the magic of LD_PRELOAD. Really hoping this gets a track of its own.
- First week of the new job is done. Mind has been blown multiple times per day. Feel like my brain is oozing out of my ears. So fun.
