The Robot Co-op
Does it matter what they do with such a cool line up? http://robotcoop.com/
View ArticleEverything you need to know about distributed systems.
In the form of a job listing. If I did work for mega-corps…. http://saladwithsteve.com/2005/02/distributed-systems-for-living.html
View ArticleAll Consuming Taken Over By Robots!
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...
View ArticleAmazon.com: Mirror Dance
How do you know it’s time to re-print a book? When used mass-market paperback copies are going for $25...
View ArticleAmazon Prime, the Ultimate Big Box Store
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...
View ArticleJavaScript-based apps can be served up from the S3 domain as files stored via S3
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
View ArticleBible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75
Okay the sheep were cute, but this is interesting. http://www.esv.org/blog/2006/06/mechanical.turk.recap
View ArticleAmazon and Micro Transactions
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),...
View ArticleBrackup doesn’t support restore from S3
Just in case you were confused by the documentation which says it does. http://brad.livejournal.com/tag/brackup
View ArticleKokogiak – Amazon’s Digital Video sneak peek: “Amazon Unbox”
Alan does a bit of sleuthing. (Of course Alan has the advantage of being an AWS god) http://www.kokogiak.com/gedankengang/2006/08/amazons-digital-video-sneak-peek.html
View ArticleAmazon EC2: Still working on the “elastic” part?
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...
View ArticleWhen Computers Fail
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...
View ArticleSome EC2, Fedora, Rails, Mongrel, Memcached Links
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: Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide – very...
View ArticleLink Tipping: interesting Amazon FPS backed micropayment tool
For promoting/sharing links. (via rafe) http://linktipping.com/
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Amazon reveals its secret key-data overlords from the planet Cloud
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...
View ArticleAmazon.com: SimpleDB
Building the Cloud Castle(tm), one brick at a time. Very similar set of operations to CouchDb, but without Couch’s views. Nice SimpleDB vs CouchDb side by side comparison. And more info from someone...
View ArticleAmazon SQS Drops Price By 10,000%?
At the cost of reducing packet size to 8k, retention time to 4 days, and buffer size to 10 messages. Some folks will complain but it certainly looks like it sets the service up to compete better with...
View ArticleAmazon Developer Connection: Why S3 Failed
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...
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New Amazon AWS Signature Version 2 is “OAuth-compatible”
Spent a couple hours last night writing the core of a stripped down, PHP4 compatible API library for Amazon SimpleDB (in the style of my flickr simple library. Just not a fan of abstraction for its...
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(One of the many) Ebook Dilemmas.
How do I support and reward the excellent curation of the local bookstore if I want the ebook version of something I find? – Kellan I am not a unsophisticated consumer of science fiction. And finding...
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