Aehso's Output » aws http://www.xlml.com/aehso John O'Shea's musings, observations and opinions on anything and everything. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Amazon SimpleDB http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/12/14/amazon-simpledb/ http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/12/14/amazon-simpledb/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:11:29 +0000 aehso http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/12/14/amazon-simpledb/ I was going to blog about Google Knol but I got a bit creeped out after reading a bit more about it – more on that some other day. Far more interesting though, yesterday Amazon added another huge web service to their AWS offering – this time an Erlang based SimpleDB (limited beta) sporting both RESTful(Update: yikes they tunnel through GET – that stinks!) HTTP/RPC and SOAP interfaces – see the Developer Guide and other good related posts (love the title of that last one).

Amazon now provide pretty much have all the infrastructure that a web application might need – hosting, storage, database, message queuing. This stuff is utility SaaS in its rawest form. Nick Carr has a timely piece about what Google are up to in this space. (Update: Joe Gregorio, now of Google, has an interesting megadata view).

]]> http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/12/14/amazon-simpledb/feed/ 0 Post GP http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2002/03/04/post-gp-2/ http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2002/03/04/post-gp-2/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:34:45 +0000 aehso http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2002/03/03/melbourne-gp/ $30,000 each!) and then head [...]]]> Bad head day! We’re all feeling worn out so we pile into the minivan with my sister and the kids and go on a tour. We stop off at Brighton beach to admire the multi-colored beach boxes (little huts on the edge of the beach that are supposedly worth > $30,000 each!) and then head down to the pier to absorb the views of the city. A couple of photos later we’re onto Fitzroy St. which is kinda a trendyish cafe strip. The kids are getting restless though so home it is, followed by a traditional Aussie barbque. Ah yes, now I remember why I like this country! Sean is looking a bit ropey though…

Boxes!

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