Amazon Web Services at Scale

It was a great talk on the evolution of the wattpad production environment. I thought he provided an honest tale of how things evolved.

Good solid information and I like the real world war stories Rich shared. One suggestion would be to pause a few times throughout your presentation to take questions and make the audience more involved.

Excellent "from the trenches" chronicle of a particular company's growth from a single server to a large, complex cloud-based infrastructure. More detail on the bottleneck analysis and decision process at each stage (ie: what alternatives were considered and why) would have been nice, but did not detract from the overall experience. Well done!

Good talk that pulls from lots of real world experience. I would like to have seen more details about what you did and why you chose the technologies you chose. Maybe finish off with "next we are going to try..."