January 19, 2012   17 notes
Ulterior Motives I was proud of the internet today. The anti-SOPA boycotts where epic, forcing 18 senators and counting to drop SOPA support for this nightmare. That’s good news for everyone who lives on the internet, which I’m pretty sure is everyone (based on a polling of folks within shouting distance… which seemed sciency enough). But I can’t help feeling some SOPA blackout sites were in it for other reasons. This doesn’t phase me, per se, since I don’t care about the motives of anyone who helps me out… not really. In other news, Amazon DynamoDB was publicized today, which should make anyone considering a run into a Riak DBaaS to crap their pants good and proper. Not that we don’t all pine for a Riak host, and there are certainly improvements made against the basic Dynamo offerings (of which Riak is of its ilk), but it’s hard to compete with Amazon’s hardware. Incase you were unaware, their Dynamo servers will run on a vast field of SSDs (SSD stands for “Sexy State Drive”). Even God is jealous of this storage power. Amazon threw down the gauntlet à la mode. Good thing too, since 100% of all people hate EBS. In related news, I look forward to “Sloppy Quorum” working its way into common vernacular.

Ulterior Motives

I was proud of the internet today. The anti-SOPA boycotts where epic, forcing 18 senators and counting to drop SOPA support for this nightmare. That’s good news for everyone who lives on the internet, which I’m pretty sure is everyone (based on a polling of folks within shouting distance… which seemed sciency enough). But I can’t help feeling some SOPA blackout sites were in it for other reasons. This doesn’t phase me, per se, since I don’t care about the motives of anyone who helps me out… not really.

In other news, Amazon DynamoDB was publicized today, which should make anyone considering a run into a Riak DBaaS to crap their pants good and proper. Not that we don’t all pine for a Riak host, and there are certainly improvements made against the basic Dynamo offerings (of which Riak is of its ilk), but it’s hard to compete with Amazon’s hardware. Incase you were unaware, their Dynamo servers will run on a vast field of SSDs (SSD stands for “Sexy State Drive”). Even God is jealous of this storage power.

Amazon threw down the gauntlet à la mode. Good thing too, since 100% of all people hate EBS.

In related news, I look forward to “Sloppy Quorum” working its way into common vernacular.

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