Werner Vogels
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
My code is running.
Everything is happening.
Transactions are playing through.
And suddenly the number of transactions doubles.
But there isn't a doubling of the number of the customer on the website.
Who the hell is doing this to me?
And as such, you know, being a specialist in one particular area and just staying there is safe.
It's fine.
But you live in a bigger system.
You know, if we think about, and that really comes out of 60s, 70s, Madeleine Meadows began what's something called system thinking.
It is this, in nature, you know, if you remove one piece out of that equation, of the complete nature equation, you know,
You ruin the overall thing.
At some moment, what was it?
Yellowstone Park.
There were too many wolves.
They removed the wolves from the park.
Oh, they were killing all the elks.
So they removed all the wolves.
And then...
The number of elves grows like mad.