VI · Distributed-systems pioneers
Werner Vogels
1958–
CTO of Amazon · Dynamo paper
Gave us
Co-author of the Dynamo paper (2007). The "everything fails, all the time" engineering culture at AWS. The All Things Distributed blog, where AWS's architectural decisions are explained in long form.
The story
Took the principles from his PhD work at Cornell on highly-available distributed systems and turned them into AWS's operational doctrine. The blog post "Eventually Consistent" (2008) is the canonical introduction to that consistency model.