September 2007
3 posts
WatchWow. Douglas Crockford goes to Google, to ask for extensions to Gears that will revolutionize mashups, and is met with (seemingly) uncomprehending silence.
What _is_ that? Was it just too obvious? He dissed Java and XML, that might have something to do with it…
(via Google Video)
Instance reincarnation using duplicity?
For me, the biggest challenge to using Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure (besides the usual trust issues I have with any corporation) has been the ephemeral nature of any data saved to an instance’s hard drive. In a nutshell, if the instance goes away, so does everything in the local filesystem.
I recognize how valuable it is to declare up front that the data is ephemeral, because it...
