| > What advice would you give to somebody looking to get into a career with AWS? I'm not sure what they are looking for, but I'd say learn your distributed computing theory. Most every person I talk to there is quite competent in that aspect of CS. You should be learning about things like hashing algorithms[0][1], bulkheading[2], backpressure[3], caching and cache invalidation and coherence[4], and eventual consistency[5], among other things. Start with those and you'll have a good foundation for your interview. Heck, if you just read the pages on those topics you'll be way ahead of the game, and if you follow the related links, you can give yourself a solid foundation in a day. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_hashing [2] http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/12/netflix-hystrix-fault-tole... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_pressure#Back_pressure_in_... [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_coherence [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency |