Amazon cloud computing platform AWS promoter: Werner Vogels

Amazon cloud computing platform AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides many companies with basic cloud Services.

Dropbox, Instagram, Quora, Foursquare, Reddit, Heroku, and these new internet stars are able to shine brightly, and AWS has made great achievements; it allows small teams with ideas and technologies, world-class operation services can be obtained at a low price, which can withstand the rapid growth of users.

Since AWS is so important, you have to mention Amazon CTO Werner Vogels-one of the AWS main architects.

Werner Vogels was born on 1958 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After being exposed to eight computers Atari, his interest in computer science became unacceptable. Vogels studied at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in early years and PC was not yet popular at that time. He laughed and said he was lucky to use a 16-bit PDP-11 minicomputer.

In early 1990s, Vogels, in his early 30 s, came to Lisbon, Portugal and served as a senior researcher at the Institute of system and computer engineering (INESC) at the University of Porto. "At that time, he had not made any achievements in the academic field." under the guidance of his colleagues, he joined the development team, constantly improved his skills, and published his first scientific research achievement.

In 1994, Vogels traveled to the United States and has been working in the computer department of Cornell University for 10 years. The main field is a scalable and reliable enterprise system. Where he first attempted to work with the team and constructed U-net within a very limited period of time, a user-level network interface for parallel and distributed computing. That partnership impressed Vogels with a wonderful impression and laid the blueprint for his future career.

1999 ~ In 2002, Vogels served as vice president and CTO at Reliable Network Solutions. During this period, he began to write the blog "All Things Distributed", and now he has become a top distribution system expert. In my blog, Vogels wrote a large number of articles in the distributed field. In the past, concepts that existed only in academic discussions were greatly popularized. He has also written many references and columns, and is also focused on distributed computing technology.

In 2003, vogels Received a doctorate degree in computer science from the Free University of Amsterdam. Two mentors, Professor Henri BAL and professor Andy Tanenbaum, were also famous, he is the author of minix, a famous Unix-like operating system, and an expert in parallel computing.

So far, we have seen the accumulation of expert knowledge in the field. He has been to different countries, worked with teams of different cultural backgrounds, worked on the bottom-layer technology, and achieved a high level of technical management, he has made great achievements in academic research and commercial implementation. He has made great efforts in his own fields. In 2004, vogels joined Amazon and served as the R & D department manager. In early 2005, vogels was appointed CTO and vice president, and began to take charge of Amazon's global architecture design and technical innovation, including cloud computing. Vogels has an important position inside and outside the company and is the only external speaker that can represent the company except Jeff Bezos. After joining Amazon, vogels's blog writing started to shift from talking about its own research achievements to introducing more popular technologies and industrial concepts that are product-oriented. In addition, the shift also reflected that he began to focus more on teamwork.

2008 was a landmark year for vogels and he became one of AWS architects. Information Week issues the annual CTO/CIO award to vogels for their contributions to the popularization and promotion of cloud computing.

Vogels does not trust a universal platform, that is, a platform is applicable everywhere, because each platform can only meet the needs of some developers, applications and users. Vogels has always stressed that the core of building AWS is to encourage innovation. He often communicates with application developers on AWS to present their innovative achievements in a timely manner and help build a "Platform ". Vogels once elaborated on Amazon's architecture technology in a paper and introduced dynamo, a storage engine designed specifically for the shopping cart. This paper won the osdi Best Paper Award, this engine was then applied to Amazon S3.

According to the latest network traffic analysis, Amazon processes 1% of Internet traffic, and 1/3 of Internet users access the website hosted by amazonaws every day. Amazon cloud computing is becoming one of the core components of the Internet.

At the time of writing, Werner vogels announced in his blog the AWS new service Amazon cloudsearch, as he said: "cloud computing has just begun ."