Daily Archives: January 12th, 2007

Distributed MySQL Via Web Services?

Imagine for a moment, if you will, making your MySQL queries via a REST API. Weird, huh? I’ll admit its a crazy idea, but then a lot of my ideas are crazy. Still. Work with me here. Query –> || REST API || The query is a select Rest API synchronously determines both which servers [...]

One Resource to Rule Them All!

One resource to rule them all, One resource to find them, One resource to bring them all, And in the darkness bind them, In the land of server where the shadows lie. It’s been a bumpy road to peoples understanding of the EC2 service. And a large part of the problem is a point of [...]

Down with HTML E-Mail!

Begin rant I’m with Jeremy on this one… Lets face it, e-mail is broken.  We have long since outgrown it, we have been living with the pains of ot for a long time now.  It’s everyones favorite internet whipping boy. “I hate spam” “I hate stupid forwards” “I hate huge attachments”.  We spend all our [...]