readwriteweb.com — Amazon has a revolutionary technology sitting right under everyone's noses. Their happy accident? Building a reliable, scalable and robust ecommerce system. They've been able to build one of the world's most impressive, massively scalable datacenter systems. Most fortunately for you, they're willing to share it. Programmers should take advantage!
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Closed AccountMar 8, 2007
"Their happy accident?"I just sprayed ale out my nose. Do you call spending billions of dollars on infrastructure an accident? I sure don't. While Amazon has been somewhat fortunate, don't confuse luck with skill and lots of funding. They patented the one-click sale transaction. I'm sure that was just serendipity, not a shrewd business move... The architecture they use (refered to as S3) was designed to work for what they need. Make no mistake, APIs and business-models do not occur by happy coincidence or accident. Amazon is successful because they made smart decisions. The only "accident" is that they had the good fortune to be in the right place/time to capitalize on the ecommerce growth during a time when most major players were scared out of the arena due to the dot bomb.
scrappy1850Mar 8, 2007
"I AM NOT A DOUCHE!" oh... john edwards... with an S
pdelahantyMar 8, 2007
FYI to anyone else about to reply to this first comment...and those in other diggs... I'm blocking this moron and that means that I won't see this thread. If you have anything to say, don't reply and post a comment like you're supposed to at the bottom. Don't threadjack.
Closed AccountMar 8, 2007
Amazon just doesn't have the specific products I am looking for.... I've never found it useful, for myself.
Closed AccountMar 9, 2007
Sounds like you're not a user of EC2 etc mate. Well, I am and I know several others that are, and let me tell you it's the dog's bollocks (that's a sign of appreciation here in the UK). You have your front end server either hosted on EC2 or elsewhere, and then you fire up or take down EC2 "instances" (servers) in minutes as demand requires. And use S3 for storage.Suddenly a guy in his bedroom with a neat idea and a few programming skills can match the infrastructure power of a huge corporation and millions of dollars worth of kit. That's the revolution. That's democracy. And that's what will push the Internet forward - because the little people with the big ideas can make things happen at long long last, without being raped by VCs, or ignored by big corporations, or have their ideas stolen from them. Suddenly great ideas can compete on a level regardless of where they came from. And lets face it, all great developments in technology and science have historically come from individuals or small teams. That's why this is amazing.CheersAlex<a class="user" href="http://www.phonething.com">http://www.phonething.com</a>
lamestoryMar 9, 2007
that is the dumbest and most long-winded article i've read in quite a while. can we just get a coherent summary and move on? damn bored bloggers.
huyashamashaMay 4, 2007
This article is wonderful.But something makes me feel that's not true at all...