sotto.org

S Stands for Simple

Saturday, November 18th, 2006 at 10:11 am

The evolution of SOAP and web services specs as a conversation. Awesome.

Google’s Chubby Lock Service

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

Not to be confused with their previously undisclosed Morning Missle Semaphore Manager.

Little Fluffy Computing Clouds

Monday, September 4th, 2006 at 8:32 am

A beta tester “writing”:http://www.maluke.com/blog/amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-ec2 about Amazon’s “Elastic Computing Cloud”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011, which is a fully programmatic virtual computing environment:
The main point of course is that it can be set up and torn down programmaticaly. It works like this: you upload a system image (Amazon Machine Image or AMI) and then make a call to boot it, you [...]