There are some questions about how the recent patent award for MapReduce to Google will impact existing projects.
Archive for February, 2010
CloudCamp Seattle
Web Services · 02/04/2010CloudCamp was fun, my first “unconference”. Vendors presented their services in 5 minutes or less, here were some.
- WebServius – 3rd party billing for your web service. Handles things like signup, metering, api key gen, quotas & analytics.
- DynInc – Who knew DNS could be so cool? Regional DNS routing, global traffic management, geo targeting traffic, load balancing. This is what sys admins do when they go to heaven.
- Twilio – Phone API (Press 1 for “Services”, Press 2 for “Billing”). I couldn’t remember their name for the longest time until last night when they were mentioned by the speaker from WebServius. Didn’t actually present.
SAWSUG 2/2/2010
Web Services · 02/03/2010Yesterday’s SAWSUG meeting was held in the soon-to-be old Amazon building on Beacon Hill. Saw great presentations by
- AWS feature rollout since November (A December to remember)
- AWS DB offering overview (EC2 AMIs, RDS and SimpleDB). Don’t forget the 4 hour maintenance window! Rollout of 5.1.4.2 is coming soon.
- Senior VP Engineering Bob Wise from nuTsie.com (aka Melodeo)
- OpsCode‘s CTO Adam Jacob and VP Engineering Christopher Brown.
Take aways:
- Amazon’s 8th floor presentation room had some rockin’ views of the sound!
- Both presentations hinted that small AWS instances really don’t provide the best bang for your buck. Medium (High CPU) and Large sizes tend to provide better performance.
- Didn’t know that Windows 2008 R2 was now available on AWS (haven’t checked since December).
- CIDR addresses should be “/32″ unless you know what you’re doing!
- HIPPA compliance is at the App level, SAS 70 is at the physical layer.
- Locking your AWS instances can prevent accidental/unintentional shutdowns.
- memcached, memcached, memcached.
- Ecualyptus: Your own private Idaho (in the cloud) is AWS API compatible!