Roberto Vitillo

Engineering @ AWS – author of – tweets are my own

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@miguelbemartin @TheEngBookClub Hey Miguel, I would love to join a coffee chat!

[Akshat Vig @akshatvig]

Excited to share our published paper at USENIX ATC 23 on how distributed transactions were implemented in @dynamodb using a timestamp ordering protocol without sacrificing high scalability, high availability, and predictable performance at scale

https://t.co/EHwXKmqLXS

[Davide Bellone | Code4it.dev | Microsoft MVP @BelloneDavide]

The more I read this book by @RaVitillo, the more I’m happy with the purchase.

A must-read book for every backend dev

[The Pragmatic Engineer @Pragmatic_Eng]

We cover two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by @RaVitillo:

1. Downstream resiliency

Timeout, retries, circuit breaker

2. Upstream resiliency

Load shedding, load leveling, rate limiting, constant work.

Read it here: https://t.co/T1yo6X0frW

[Pres Mihaylov @PreslavMihaylov]

Just finished reading Understanding Distributed Systems by @RaVitillo

One of the best CS books I've read so far, highly recommended. I'll curate a TOC and a book review over the weekend.

Meanwhile, you can check out my WIP #booknotes here - https://t.co/xAKoOA03Tx

[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram]

I am delighted to announce the new, updated, https://t.co/S37OG6Epdn! This new TLA+ guide took six months of work and is almost 40,000 words long, and I already have a million ideas on what to add next. Suitable for both beginning learners and advanced users alike!

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@spinscale Happy to hear you enjoyed the book! :)

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@andy_pavlo @danavanaken @BohanZhangOT @OtterTuneAI @intelcapital @RaceCapital @Accel Congrats Andy!

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@DominikTornow I leveled up by being on call for a large-scale system with strict SLAs and thousands of customers.

There is so much to learn from seeing systems fail in new and unexpected ways and finding ways to prevent that in the future.

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

Celebrating 15 min of fame: the second edition of Understanding Distributed Systems is the #1 new release in Distributed Systems & Computing

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@LambrosPetrou Glad to hear you found the book useful! :)

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@vratsalis Happy to hear you found the book useful :)

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Kyiv, our splendid, peaceful city, survived another night under attacks by Russian ground forces, missiles. One of them has hit a residential apartment in Kyiv. I demand the world: fully isolate Russia, expel ambassadors, oil embargo, ruin its economy. Stop Russian war criminals!

[John Luttig @absoluttig]

Microsoft is not a Silicon Valley darling, so it is often overlooked. But the behemoth in Redmond teaches us valuable lessons in startup strategy, cloud infrastructure, and the future of software. I wrote about my learnings here: https://t.co/zw4FqzNV8V

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@alexxubyte Sorry to this happening to you! I can imagine how frustrating it must feel and I hope this gets sorted soon

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@ifesdjeen Someone I know recommended your book, and I would have bought it regardless of publisher :)

Out of curiosity, do you feel having a publisher limited you somehow (e.g. choice of topics, length of book, etc.)?

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@RandallKanna Congrats and well deserved! This course will help many people getting their dream job

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

@gotgenes @amyngyn Thanks for the praise, Chris! :)

[Roberto Vitillo @RaVitillo]

Achievement unlocked: receiving a care package of snarky systems stickers from @mipsytipsy