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- AWS EMR = elastic map reduce. Big data framework. Hooks into hadoop, spark, etc, pulls data from s3. It’s a cloud solution, don’t need on-prem or ec2.
- Data plane teams = installing, configuring, making sure the cluster works.
- Control plane teams = orchestration. This is the ny team.
- They work on security as well.
- Daire McKenna.
- They manage their own build/test/ops.
- This team: 13 devs. 2 are senior.
- Total ~8k amazon employees in NYC. Most are probably fulfillment centers though.
- EMR is a 10-yr old product.
- Leadership in amazon is very technical, which is good.
- Kerberos auth. From MIT.
- Took a COVID-19 survey from 23andMe.
- BoA wants a reserve fund beyond the closing costs. I said that I’m unwilling to liquidate any solium stock, because that’s a high opportunity cost. We’ll see what happens.
- Flew to LA.
- Read Secure and Reliable Systems (Google/OReilly) and The Mythical Man Month on the plane. Will post notes tomorrow.
