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Presentation: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on Availability and Consistency
When we move to distributed architectures for scalability and/or fault-tolerance reasons we are also introducing additional complexities. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dives into the different parameters that play in the tension between availability and consistency and presents a generalized model that we can use to reason about the trade-offs between different solutions.
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Amazon adds a machine image marketplace to EC2
Amazon continues to create more competitive advantage for its infrastructure services platform (AWS) by introducing a new marketplace which allows image producers to charge customers for the machine images they develop.
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Using Amazon Web Services to Implement a Video File Conversion app
As covered on InfoQ in the past, Amazon's infrastructure services platform is enabling new levels of cost savings as well as capabilities for certain classes of applications that can map to its scalable compute and storage services. One recent sample application demonstrates building a complete video file conversion service.
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MapReduce Gaining Traction: Tools Plugin Released for Eclipse and Amazon EC2 Support
IBM's Alphaworks website has released an Eclipse plugin to simplify the development of applications using Hadoop, the open source Java MapReduce framework. Work has also been done to easily allow Hadoop applications to run on Amazon's EC2 and S3 platforms for processing and storage.
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SOA Coverage on Software Engineering Radio
Software Engineering Radio, a podcast for professional developers, has an extensive coverage of SOA, including interviews with Werner Vogels, Steve Vinoski, Gregor Hohpe, and Michael Stal.
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Marcel Molina on Amazon S3 Use at 37signals
Yesterday, Marcel Molina Jr. of 37signals (and member of the Rails core-team) announced the initial release of AWS::S3, a ruby library for Amazon's Simple Store Service's (S3) REST API. In this article, Marcel shares insight into the motivations and history behind his promising new library and casts light into how Amazon's web services are transforming the industry.
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Run Your Own Google Style Computing Cluster with Hadoop and Amazon EC2
Amazon's EC2 Elastic Computing cloud allows developers to acquisition computing power a the rate of $0.10 per hour consumed. Work as been done to allow Hadoop an open source MapReduce implementation written in Java to run on EC2. This combination will allow developers to write scalable algorithms and then bring up large numbers of servers to use as computing power for them as needed.
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Will Amazon Change How Enterprise Applications are Written and Hosted?
Amazon has quietly been expanding their business model as of late. They are targeting developers with three new computing services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Simple Queue Serve (SQS). Bloggers have been commenting on how the products could revolutionize how applications are provisioned and deployed.