Take 2: Amazon S3 file deletion FAIL
The S3 bucket key deletion saga continues. I had two Ec2 XL instances running
24/7 for about a month, running ~150 parallelized DELETE requests on s3 bucket
keys (each machine), and dented
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Amazon S3 file deletion FAIL
I'm a huge fan of Ec2 and S3 offerings from Amazon; they're the future. However,
there's a severe deficiency in the S3 API; when you need to delete billions of
files, the API
Speed Date with Google App Engine
I assumed that in the months since the announcement of Google App Engine
[http://code.google.com/appengine/], that its glaring HTTP client deficiencies
would have been resolved. Nope.
Any modern platform needs
Forecast: Sunny Skies & Windy
It took us a few days, but we've ported our system over to AWS. We're not
clustered in the cloud yet, but that's next. We'll be conducting load tests next
week. My first