Growing (up) is hard

By Werner Vogels on June 1, 2006 9:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Building systems that can guarantee performance and availability while scaling up to handle exponential growth in datasets and user requests is still very much a Dark Art. It is an art we master quite well by now at Amazon but it took a lot of growing pains to get to this level of sophistication.

At least someone at Technorati has a sense of humor about their pains…