I’ve been sick this past week so I haven’t been up to posting much, but I did find these two articles that are definitely worth sharing.
Werner Vogel’s(CTO of Amazon.com) attached an architecture paper on his blog All Things Distributed. The paper covers the architecture in place for Amazon’s distributed storage system.
If storage system architecture for extremely scalable ecommerce sites is not your thing, I saw that Harvard Business Review conducted an interview with Jeff Bezo’s(CEO of Amazon.com). The interview focuses on strategy and how it’s formulated at Amazon. The graphic on page 2 showing the product line expansion, feature inclusion and sales revenue is great review of the company looking back.
Both are definitely worth the read.
October 20th, 2007 on 11:11 am
Thanks for the link to the Bezo’s HBR interview, it’s a great read.
I love how they were able to view the failures of auctions and zshops as failures of tactics and remain confident in their belief that they could generate significant returns by bringing in third party sellers. I imagine there were a lot of naysayers when they decided for the third time to try to bring in third party sellers.