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the Gambler’s wisdom never gets old; i’d argue, however, that some of the services mentioned here could not have taken off were they not acquired given the costs of scaling (maybe EC2 can change that)
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and the InnoDB issue gets even further into the rearview mirror; need to look into who’s using the engines in production, because i still do ususually see either MyISAM or InnoDB
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fascinating: clustered grid web hosting layering on top of EC2 – i’m more of a believer in that every day
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see specifically Marten’s response here; you really have to hand it to MySQL, they have the community relations bit down cold
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Matt’s notes from Google’s talk at MySQL Camp at Google – got all that?
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“Total amount spent on S3: $84,255.25…Total savings: $339,430.75” – the economics here are interesting in a profound way
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REST is to WS-* as DIYs are to the W3C, OASIS, etc
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the Joyent folks weigh in on some of the questions raised in my Do Operating Systems matter posts, among other things; interesting podcast
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indemnify them from what, precisely?
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David Van Couvering says:
November 17, 2006 at 11:06 am
Just a note, I had a similar observation to the Great DB In the Sky being pretty much what the Semantic Web is about at
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/2006/11/the_great_datab.html
David
Joel Meyer says:
November 17, 2006 at 12:02 pm
The ElasticLive link is really interesting. I posted to the AWS forums to see if anyone knew more about it (http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=12769). I’ve been looking a lot at EC2/S3 and I’m really intrigued. The only drawback is that machine state isn’t auto-persisted when you terminate an instance and based on my reading it seems like S3 can’t quite be treated like a block-device and mounted as such (reliably, at least, though this thread has some interesting info on doing so using FUSE: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=10271&start=0&tstart=15). Since ElasticLive’s prices are about 2.5x the Amazon rate, I wonder if they’re starting up two instances of every image and mirroring everything to provide better reliability? I’d love to know more.
stephen o'grady says:
November 21, 2006 at 2:07 pm
David: thx for the link – recommend others give it a read. interesting stuff. also liked your piece on JavaDB (aka Derby).
Joel: i’m going to have to remember to get in touch w/ them after the break, because i’d really like to know more about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it.