Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise ...
James Hamilton on his boat, Dirona, docked at the Wakiki Yacht Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo: Kent Nishimura/WiredOn a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility’s main source of power, and about 15 minutes later, James Hamilton just happened to pull into the parking lot.It was a serendipitous moment. Hamilton is the Distinguished Engineer who oversees the increasingly complex design of the data-center empire that drives Amazon Web Services, or AWS — the nothing-
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Reuven Cohen
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire http://t.co/4w5lTBYv < great post.
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Mario Cruz
James Hamilton article is interesting http://t.co/5iJjNOMj . When @adrianco calls you really sharp, you know he knows his shit.
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Vanessa Alvarez
Have had the pleasure of 1:1 time w/ James Hamilton, truly one of the best in the industry http://t.co/4o15mT3B via @mdesilver #AWS
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Werner Vogels
'Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire" great profile of James Hamilton in @wired #AWS http://t.co/EZaMfRFJ
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Laurianne McLaughlin
RT @Werner: 'Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire" great profile of James Hamilton in @wired #AWS http://t.co/EZaMfRFJ
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