Zenfinch

Really? Werner Vogels said they built a totally different logging and storage layer.

Also a good bit of video of Vogels talking about Aurora.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rPpCnFE-hU&feature=youtu.be...

It's api is based on mysql, doesn't share interals with it.

They had a deep dive into during the last re:invent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwWFrZGMDds

His experiences working with regulators/Government agencies?

Tesla and SpaceX are in really strict industries when it comes to regulation, how did he navigate through all of this when going from 0 to product?

It will be fascinating to see how fast Cuba in a post embargo-lift landscape can build up ip infrastructure, its cool that by year's end 2017 its probably good enough for a Cloudflare PoP.

(though imagine being uniquely placed to the USA along with other factors is a huge plus for building that infra).

If you can have a monitoring system in the cloud Datadog is a great choice.

Good documentation, UI, many, many plugins and fair pricing (IMO).

https://www.datadoghq.com/

(Im not affiliated with in any way other than using their product on a pet project with many moving parts).

Chinese companies are certainly innovating and they are picking up R&D teams anywhere on the planet.

For example you have Andrew Ng as Chief Scientist at Baidu Research in Silicon Valley even though Baidu pretty much only operates solely in the Chinese market.

Brace for half the internet going down if gets any worse, especially if its us-east (wish I was being ironic).

Certainly is amazing!

I want to know the secrets to being such a good company and/or manager that you can keep someone earning 1.1m on your staff!