HowStuffWorks “Amazon Technology”: This is a well-written article about the behemoth that is Amazon. I’m linking to the second of six pages, since the first page is just fluff. Page two digs right in: The massive technology core that keeps Amazon running is entirely Linux-based. As of…
Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon: Piracy is the mother of invention. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies…
Amazon’s S3 Web Service, our #1 cause of failure: Unfortunate. Using Amazon’s S3 has about the same cost and complexity as hosting the images ourselves, but we had thought that the reliability of Amazon would be significantly higher. But that now seems wrong. […] S3…