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Amazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed

Kellan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:09:43 +0000

The authentication cluster was overloaded, and improperly monitored. Complex systems are like that, never know where the problems will arise. Good clear communication, but it should have been on the AWS blog.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=79978#79978

Facebook Data Store API

Kellan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:45:21 +0000

When I heard that f.bk had a new Data Store API was thinking “Wow! That’s actually hard!”.

But if you read it closer you’ll notice the operations map to what can de done in memcache (down to transactions are handled via atomic auto-increments) with a bit of cleverness, and some persistence. (pun intended) Still a nice step towards making developing f.bk apps a bit less eye-pokey-outty

Everyone is building the giant hash table in the clouds.

Amazon EC2: Still working on the “elastic” part?

Kellan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:04:00 +0000

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.

Brackup doesn’t support restore from S3

Kellan — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:01:00 +0000

Just in case you were confused by the documentation which says it does.

http://brad.livejournal.com/tag/brackup

Amazon and Micro Transactions

Kellan — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:52:00 +0000

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.

JavaScript-based apps can be served up from the S3 domain as files stored via S3

Kellan — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:02:00 +0000

Adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself.

http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/04/03/javascript-apps-with-readwrite-access-to-s3