The invisible engineering behind Lambda’s network
The subtle inventiveness that reduced cold start setup from seconds to 200μs.
Latest / April 22, 2026
Posts from April 22, 2026
3 posts from engineering leaders published April 22, 2026, by Werner Vogels and Lara Hogan and Shawn Wang (swyx).
Why can't they just...? Revisited
(This is an updated version of a post I first wrote in 2017 . Given everything happening in tech today, it felt worth dusting off.) The question “Why can’t they just…” has been a common refrain I’ve heard throughout my career. “Why can’t they just X” is, at its core, a great…
What you can do in a decade
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.