Episode 40: Interview Werner Vogels

This episode is an interview with Werner Vogels, the CTO of
amazon.com. We first talked about what scalability is, and which
aspects there are to scalability. We then took a brief look at the
technologies used at amazon, specifically, the middleware systems
and the issue of vendor lock-in. Web services, and the role of SOA
was the next topic. Then we covered what a service actually is add
Werner explained the term "pizza teams". Testing and Deployment was
the next topic followed by a look at architectural characteristics
of scalable systems, the value of simplicity and the CAP theorem.
We concluded the discussion with a brief look at the future of
distributed systems