Dan Pink's Drive [http://www.danpink.com/books/drive/] is one of my favourite books. I also really like his RSA talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mG-hhWL_ug] on the same subject. Pink argues that people are happy, engaged, productive, and creative when they are intrinsically motivated, as| Colin Breck
Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has evolved to meet the needs of our customers.| www.allthingsdistributed.com
“I don’t know what’s wrong with my development team,” the CEO thinks to himself. “Things were going so well when we started this project. For the first couple of weeks…| Joel on Software
The cloud will become increasingly less important for transactional and analytical data processing and storage.| Colin Breck
Are database benchmarks still relevant ? Let's understand why it's a poor way to choose a database. | Reading time: 17 min read| MotherDuck
Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.| www.allthingsdistributed.com
