Simon Willison’s Weblog

Multi-Inflection-Point Alert. Dammit, Tim, stop giving away our competitive advantages! 26th April 2008, 6:48 pm

Eventually Consistent. Werner Vogels explains the trade-offs involved in building scalable, highly-available data stores such as Amazon’s SimpleDB. 20th December 2007, 5:59 pm

Amazon SimpleDB overview. Attribute values are limited to 1,024 bytes; Amazon suggest that you store larger fields in S3 and use SimpleDB to query metadata about those objects. 14th December 2007, 11:39 am

What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB. Amazon have finally launched the database component of their web service suite. It fits a bunch of current trends: key/value pairs, schemaless, built on top of Erlang. “Eventual consistency” is an interesting characteristic. 14th December 2007, 11:21 am