​​A case study from Amazon, how science solves actual engineering problems that later translate in money savings (likely millions on the Amazon scale).

How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code—and deliver greater reliability and performance for customers is a story about AWS realigning their network around the random graph theory.

P.S. I always feel excited about the networking stories, because I studied them in the university. Even though I haven’t worked closely with them since many years ago, and forgot almost everything about them.

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