Final thoughts from reInvent

In my first blog post I listed some questions I wanted to explore so it seems like I should go back to them after a week of immersion in the madness.


AWS reInvent. Some sessions

Alexa in Higher Ed

Amazon has run some contests for students: Hack-the-Dorm and Hack-the-World

John Rome, Deputy CIO of Arizona State presented. ASU has over 100,000 students. Aiming to become first voice enabled…


Detecting Malware in encrypted https traffic

A fun paper from Cisco. Using a sandbox, they generate a large data set of connections from malware to the internet that uses https. They compare this with a set of https traffic data from an enterprise network (I assume Cisco’s!) and train a ML…


Reliable Cron Across the Planet

This paper by two Google engineers is a non-technical explanation of issues found in large scale distributed systems.

Starting with cron on a single machine, it nicely shows up the differences as a job runner is scaled out to a distributed system…