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CW@60: Nobody notices when it works

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By Werner Vogels
| Computer Weekly Verified
The missing primitive For my whole career there was one tool every distributed systems engineer was taught never to reach for - the clock. You could not trust time in a distributed system, because perfectly accurate clocks did not exist. There is always some drift, some tiny delay, some error you cannot wish away, and the moment you depend on two machines agreeing on the time, you have built a subtle bug that will surface at the worst possible moment.
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The oldest architecture in computing

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By Werner Vogels
| allthingsdistributed.com
• 945 words Image Source: WBUR When I talk to customers about AI, there’s one question that always seems to come up: “Will AI take my job?” My answer, “Maybe.” It’s an honest response that often catches people off-guard, but the answer is grounded in every technology shift since the Industrial Revolution. Some work will be automated, some job families will disappear, some industries will consolidate, some of the skills we have today will be commodities tomorrow.
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DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics

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By Werner Vogels
| allthingsdistributed.com
For as long as most of us have been building with data, the systems we reach for — databases, query engines, data warehouses — have, at any appreciable scale, been separate systems. As a community, we’ve generated a lot of healthy arguments about their design along the way. Single host, clustered, or distributed, whether data should all live in memory, whether throughput or latency was the thing that mattered most, but almost all of them have been big systems that live on the other side of a wire.
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