Posted on 29th July 2008 by jeff in Product Strategy
Amazon Web Services, Architecture, SimpleDB
I love SimpleDB, no really I friggin’ love it but old habits die hard and sometimes I don’t use it the way I should. Or maybe I’m just not patient enough <cough>. Probably both.
Currently at ParkVu we’re using SimpleDB to store some info — shocking I know. The problem is that this info is somewhat event based. Ok that’s not the problem. The real problem is that sometimes I can query shortly after writing (putting) to SimpleDB and find results and sometimes I can find nothing but try again and find the information I was expecting. Presto: eventual consistency rearing the ugly side of it’s head and biting me firmly on the ass.
Fortunately there’s such beasts as Memcached to insulate you the developer from query/caching heroics. Eventual consistency, gotta love it but gotta consider it when working in the cloud.
Posted on 10th April 2008 by jeff in Product Strategy
Amazon Web Services
Terry Goertz and I posted another AWS article this week.
We frequently get asked if Amazon Web Services are here for the long haul. Some companies worry about committing and investing in AWS if Amazon itself isn’t doing the same.
We also touch on the differences between Amazon’s, Google and Microsoft’s cloud computing offerings. Full article over at Red Canary.
Posted on 12th March 2008 by jeff in Product Strategy
Amazon Web Services
Red Canary just posted the latest Amazon Web Services article by Terry Goertz and myself. In Surviving the Storm we dive into some of the operational and architectural considerations associated with running your solution on AWS and EC2 in particular. This is a follow-up to our first article Scaling with Clouds where we introduced the major components of AWS.
If you have topics you’d like us to cover please leave us feedback here or at Red Canary.
Posted on 4th March 2008 by jeff in Product Strategy
Amazon Web Services
Jeff Barr gave the RedCanary article Terry and I wrote on Cloud Computing some nice coverage on the Amazon Web Services blog. Much appreciated.
So I guess we’re committed to writing at least 3 more.
Posted on 29th February 2008 by jeff in Product Strategy
Amazon Web Services
Terry Goertz and I are writing a series of articles on designing, hosting and managing your application using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our first one, which provides a basic overview of AWS, is up on RedCanary.
We needed a portrait for RedCanary and not really being into the glamour shot scene, my son and daughter pulled together this drawing of the two of us. Yeah I’m convinced my kids have a pretty demented view of what we actually do. They know we do something with whiteboards. My daughter demanded help drawing UML actors and then my son proceeded to draw the hair and Terry’s beard. Finally it’s clear who the evil one is.
