Comments on: Eventual consistency http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/ Thoughts of a minor lunatic Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A RESTful version of Amazon’s SimpleDB at subbu.org http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-52417 A RESTful version of Amazon’s SimpleDB at subbu.org Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:45:07 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/#comment-52417 [...] data in a reliable manner hosted on Amazon’s data centers. It does have limitations such as lack of immediate consistency (the "C&quot” of ACID), and I am sure Amazon will solve such problems eventually. [...] [...] data in a reliable manner hosted on Amazon’s data centers. It does have limitations such as lack of immediate consistency (the "C&quot” of ACID), and I am sure Amazon will solve such problems eventually. [...]

]]> By: petrilli http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-50488 petrilli Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:07:30 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/#comment-50488 I've written before about why SLAs are useless. I've yet to see an SLA, issued by any company, that would actually compensate the organization for anything resembling their true losses. It simply isn't possible to do that without jacking up the costs to an unbearable level. SLA/SLGs are really only about rebating the lost services, not the lost revenue. You get 1 day of your expenses back, but not 1 day of profit. As for building from the ground up, I think you've been asleep for the past few years, and I find that most smaller companies are more willing and able to build from the ground up. Big companies go buy it from Oracle, etc., small companies build it themselves. My experience is that in the time it'd take to make a big commercial package do what I need, I can build it from scratch. This is true in many areas, but most especially so in web applications. There'll be PHP, Python, Ruby and other bindings (Java for the Enterprisey), and it'll work just great. I’ve written before about why SLAs are useless. I’ve yet to see an SLA, issued by any company, that would actually compensate the organization for anything resembling their true losses. It simply isn’t possible to do that without jacking up the costs to an unbearable level. SLA/SLGs are really only about rebating the lost services, not the lost revenue. You get 1 day of your expenses back, but not 1 day of profit.

As for building from the ground up, I think you’ve been asleep for the past few years, and I find that most smaller companies are more willing and able to build from the ground up. Big companies go buy it from Oracle, etc., small companies build it themselves.

My experience is that in the time it’d take to make a big commercial package do what I need, I can build it from scratch. This is true in many areas, but most especially so in web applications. There’ll be PHP, Python, Ruby and other bindings (Java for the Enterprisey), and it’ll work just great.

]]> By: Alexey Kharlamov http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-50487 Alexey Kharlamov Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:36:49 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/#comment-50487 Without a doubt Amazon services is a great leap forward in publicly available computation-on-demand. However they are not ready for prime time. Their Service Level guarantees look like a joke. But the main problem for Amazon based deployments is absence of appropriate tools and frameworks. Yes, it is acceptable for a big company like Amazon to build apps ground up from very low database level. But the small/mid sized companies the Amazon obviously targets this might be an overkill. Without a doubt Amazon services is a great leap forward in publicly available computation-on-demand. However they are not ready for prime time.

Their Service Level guarantees look like a joke.

But the main problem for Amazon based deployments is absence of appropriate tools and frameworks. Yes, it is acceptable for a big company like Amazon to build apps ground up from very low database level. But the small/mid sized companies the Amazon obviously targets this might be an overkill.

]]> By: tecosystems » links for 2007-12-15 http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/comment-page-1/#comment-50485 tecosystems » links for 2007-12-15 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:25:23 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2007/12/14/eventual-consistency/#comment-50485 [...] Eventual consistency at Pensieri di un lunatico minore “With the announcement of SimpleDB, Amazon has put together the last major piece needed for a fully cloud-based development approach…I see a few things that are both game-changing…First, you no longer do you have to buy any infrastructure.” - indeed (tags: amazon simpledb chrispetrilli haas saas) [...] [...] Eventual consistency at Pensieri di un lunatico minore “With the announcement of SimpleDB, Amazon has put together the last major piece needed for a fully cloud-based development approach…I see a few things that are both game-changing…First, you no longer do you have to buy any infrastructure.” – indeed (tags: amazon simpledb chrispetrilli haas saas) [...]

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