All Things Distributed

MARCH 30, 2006

Scalability is frequently used as a magic incantation to indicate that something is badly designed or broken. Often you hear in a discussion “but that doesn’t scale” as the magical word to end an argument. This is often an indication that developers are running into situations where the architecture of their system limits their ability to grow their service.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 30, 2006

Dennis Howlett reminds me that the last paragraph of my Naked Answers post suggests that I think the only way innovation happens is in reaction to customer demand. Customer feedback is an important ingredient, but not of course not the only component. Henri Fords famous quote “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, "Faster horses.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 29, 2006

Today Shel Israel and Robert Scoble stopped by at Amazon to present their book Naked Conversations in our Fishbowl series. As you can read in Shel's observations and Robert’s they appear shocked that we used a critical voice to address their work. Welcome to life at Amazon, we set a very high bar for our own works and we expect anyone that comes to sell us an approach to actually be prepared to really defend their ideas.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2006

Go check out the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). This is Amazon.com’s Internet scale storage service available through a web service interface. S3 is another example of the Amazon Web Services mission: to expose all of the atomic-level pieces of the Amazon.com platform. Providing scalable, reliable, secure and fast storage is something that Amazon developers have already enjoyed for some time and now it is available to the developer community outside of Amazon.

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