Werner Vogels

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, would we think, here's a blank paper.

Why don't you draw God?

Yeah?

No.

But this is a kid.

There are no boundaries to your curiosity and to what you can.

All these things that these kids feel as constraints are put upon them.

Yeah.

And you must have been to conference or whatever, to some tech conference at some moment where there is someone describes something about a new cache algorithm.

And they look at that and they think, that shouldn't work.

Or actually, at Amazon, we have something called the Builder's Library that's available for everyone to look at.

These are articles written by Amazon's most senior engineers.

And there is this one article by Colm that I couldn't get my head around because I've grown up in a time that you minimize the number of bytes on the wire.

Yeah.

One more bite means more time, more delay, whatever.

That's no longer the case.

You know, he describes this system in which if the receiver always has to do exactly the same number of things, because there are 10 things in this packet, but eight of them may be empty.

But everything is just standardized.