Recently I saw something I was ambivalent about seeing. When I came away I saw with some insight what the Amazon tale really tells. It is a most unusual story. It is not about getting your latest book from your least or most favourite author, or some music you heard years ago on a CD.
It is a rather simple story. Mike Culver has been telling a tale around the planet for EC2 and S3 Services. Mike is telling the story of two very different new businesses that Amazon is now offering.
So if I tell you one of them is hosting the other is cpus for rent I would not be doing Mike's talk justice. If I told you they are well worth looking up and checking out if you wanted to plan tests for programs and load sharing, rule writing when you need to work out security model which Amazon would like you to really host with them, however you can do almost what you want. You get a choice of GNU/Linux Distros, both "official Amazon" and "community" based.
ENOUGH ALREADY - THE REAL STORY!
It is simple, it is so simple it is perverse.
Business is a set of queues, and in their business these queues are the steps in their process from site visit, through sale.
In fact the queuing is so pervasive they have a technical phylosophy, everything is broken all the time, from a technical perspective. Now to make this work. You must have a "safe and secure hand over" each step, and if something fails then you fix that by not wiping the information from the queue until the next level in the process says it has the "job".
Simple, nice, works.
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