What is Digg?Sponsored by HowLifeWorks
How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day You Bought It view!
howlifeworks.com - What's the fastest way to restore a computer to its original blazing glory
19 Comments
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18"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. - alphacoder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Is this the same 'world's most impressive, massively scalable datacenter' that (to use the term from the article) was wheezing along during their Thanksgiving Day promotion? Or might that be the Amazon system that - according to their own statements - is so complicated that it has problems, 'from time to time'?
The fact that Amazon offers up a service such as S3 surely is interesting but the hype given to Amazon's datacenter seems either from their fan club, their marketing department or people who only recently submitted their resume. - DavidDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is the *WEIRDEST* article I've ever read on digg.
1) Why on earth would a corporate client agree to have their data stored with Amazon.com??? This is outright madness.
2) S3 resurrects the client-server model? Have you been living under a rock?
Some of the arguments here are pure tripe, but I'll concede that startups can use the storage model, although you can also go with an outfit like http://datareturn.com . I hear that one of the clients is fandango. Amazon isn't the only one out there. - machine117, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I thought the old /. tradition of "first post l0lz0rz!" was absent from digg. I guess not.
- jokerthief, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I shop more on Amazon than I do at any brick and mortar store.
- lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that 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.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's too bad their affiliate management system has gone down the toilet. It takes at least a month to find out if someone actually clicked on a product link.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sounds 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.
Cheers
Alex
http://www.phonething.com - huyashamasha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This article is wonderful.
But something makes me feel that's not true at all... - CoolWind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It's too bad Amazon's search function is totally primitive, making it extremely tedious, if not impossible, to find what you're looking for, if they even happen to have it.
And don't you think they should let you search only for items that are actually sold and shipped by Amazon? I'm sick of Amazon's e-commerce system. - se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2true if you exclude grocery stores and wal-mart
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Amazon just doesn't have the specific products I am looking for.... I've never found it useful, for myself.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Way to totally and utterly miss the point dude.
- peterjhill, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4The article assumes that everything is reliable, scalable, and robust.
How does the author know this? or do they assume it? We aren't talking about bittorent, where the more people using it, the more potential robustness of the system.
More users = more increased load for s3 storage and ec cpu.
too many assumptions in the article for me. - PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2FYI 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.
- mikehill33, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Great article.
don't try printing it out of FF though, the CSS is teh suck. - Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0ive never bought anything from amazon. have you?
- elroid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0As just one of the many "entrepreneurs" who have "embrac[ed] Amazon web services," I'm pretty darn happy about what Amazon is doing. More power to 'em!
http://www.jangle.net/save.aspx - Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2"I AM NOT A DOUCHE!" oh... john edwards... with an S
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is