Doug Kaye posted a block diagram of an iteration of a podcasting/publishing system in the works. It makes heavy use of Amazon’s infrastructure services… S3, ECC, and even SQS.
What I like about Amazon’s approach is that they are looking to offer discrete services (where computation is one). Most others you read about are thinking “grid” and simply CPU cycles. Amazon is enabling you to start with one aspect and grow into the others, as Doug has. He first thought about using S3 for podcasts, but obviously grew as Amazon grew their services. So what is missing from what Amazon offers. We have:
- Storage
- Messaging
- Computation
What should be added?
The only thing I can think of is a basic structure data(base). Could look relational, could look hierarchical, or perhaps something “different” (GData like?).
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