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by Werner Vogels
On building scalable control planes
What is a control plane anyway?
Living inside the control plane
Searching for Database Xanadu
“Self-hosting”
Taking off the rose-tinted glasses
Looking around corners
Zak van der Merwe on building AWS control planes for EC2 and DSQL: the systems that record what should exist and make it so.
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Duration
~21 minutes (21K characters)
Release date
Aug 4, 2026