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# Building Systems that Last


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 10:20–10:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Mainstage
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1389-building-systems-that-last)

## Description

Dr. Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com, shares essential principles for building systems that endure and evolve. Drawing from Amazon’s experience with large-scale distributed systems, he demonstrates how frugality, simplicity, and asynchronous patterns create architectures capable of sustained growth and adaptation. Attendees will learn practical strategies for future-proofing their systems.

## Speaker

### [Werner Vogels](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@werner-vogels)

VP & CTO, Amazon.com


## Related talks at this congress

- [Fireside Chat with Werner Vogels, VP & CTO, Amazon.com & Daniel Gebler, CTO at Picnic](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/840-fireside-chat-with) — Daniel Gebler, Mike Butcher, Werner Vogels
- [How to Destroy a Monolith?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/549-how-to-destroy-a) — Babette Wagner
- [Modern software architectures](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/540-modern-software) — David Tielke
- [Breaking the Hardware Mindset: Overcoming Barriers to System-Level Innovation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/908-breaking-the) — Réka Leisztner