October 3rd, 2007
Only the barest of glances at Dynamo so far, and by far the most interesting pieces are going to be how they do the scalable high availability, and of course we’re talking about “Werner Vogels Scalability(tm)“, but I was immediately struck, [as Sam was](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/10/03/Key-Data
), by the this pattern key+data we’re seeing:
- memcached (everybody is using it)
- CouchDb (everybody is talking about it)
- Berkely DB (Bloglines and Yahoo to name just two, plus Google, thanks Steve)
- Facebook Data Store API
- and now Dynamo.
Meanwhile Assaf argues well that not all keys are created equal
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April 12th, 2007
I had done some futzing around with EC2, but ExpoCal is the first web app I’ve brought up and run on it. Also my first outing with Fedora. Some links:
Also some yum’ed packages:
yum install sudo gcc ruby ruby-libs ruby-mode ruby-rdoc ruby-irb ruby-ri ruby-docs ruby-devel rsync ruby-mysql.i386 mysql mysql-devel mysql-server mysql-admin httpd-devel apr apr-devel apr-util-devel subversion libevent
February 12th, 2007
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
As someone who has expressed interest in books by William Gibson, you
might like to know that “Religion and the Enlightenment 1600-1800:
Conflict and the Rise of Civic Humanism in Taunton by William Gibson (Author)” is now available.
You can order your copy for just $71.95 by following the link below.
Funny thing is, it does sound like a book I’d be interested in.
August 24th, 2006
I’ve been waiting for an Amazon compute cluster ever since S3 came out, and like Les I tried, and failed, to sign up for EC2 beta as soon as I got the email. What all you freaks were doing up around 5am signing up for webservices I’ll never know.
Nik over at TechCrunch however ran the numbers, and its looking more like what I get from John Companies, and less like the great mapreduce grid in the sky I was hoping for.
July 2nd, 2006
Having played with and thought about the costs associated with handling transactions and paying people (and we’re talking monetary|infrastructural costs, not social|spiritual, thats a different post), I’m always struck by how much overhead there is; overhead in fact swamping the value of many types of transaction.
Which is how I know I’m living in 21st century when I was able to buy David Brin’s latest work, with money I made filling in phone number information on a couple SF restaurant listing, and have enough left over to cover backing up the contents of my virtual server I just flashed.
No real insight but having just lived through it, it felt worth noting.
January 24th, 2006
Does anyone know if there is a way to limit your searches on Amazon to only items available for Amazon Prime?
(And to clarify I’m aggressive about buying books from local independents, but the ability to notice “Hey, we’re going to need a new toilet brush soon”, and have a nifty OXO designed one show up two days later is killer. Kind of like the mass transit version of driving out to a big box store [or so I like to delude myself])
update: Lady Dr. Cutie TroublerMaker (pronouced “Abby”) points out an AskMefi thread on exactly this topic.
The answer is “no” (or rather “NO”), but the suggested work around is to include the term “Amazon” in your searches.
I am also reminded that we have the creative madman behind Amazon Light right here in Boston, and I should take this to him, so, um, Alan, any help?
May 25th, 2005
2002 was a good year for innovation, and All Consuming was one of my favorite site that came out that year. I used it, I recommended it, I wrote scripts based on it. But slowly it drifted into unusability, got slower, didn’t evolve, and eventually I went back to using Amazon as my site for proxying books onto the web.
3 years later its been revived (in 24 hours!), and is now being officially hosted as a Robot Coop app! This is great. Because there is sooo much more I’d like to see done with it! (Haven’t decided if this is good enough reason to stop hacking on my Rails book management app which is still just some quick sketches in a notebook)
That said, I’m a little ambivalent of the last of focus in the new app. Not sure if its snobbery, or segregationist tendencies, but I don’t want to share the website with non-book like media. But thats a minor quibble.
The Robots have always said that 43 Things was just the first of a long list of good ideas they wanted to roll out, and here we have their second app. Congrats guys.
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