We’ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com… This is how. (covering a requested image already stored on S3, not the upload -> s3 process) A request comes into pound for a file. Pound hashes the hostname (via a custom patch which we have not, but may, [...]
Long time readers of this blog will assert that I have no problem presenting an unpopular opinion, and/or sticking my foot in my mouth. Some times both at once! (“But wait… there’s more!”) So when N. Shah asks me how he should split his database (a tags table, items table, and users table) I say: [...]
If there’s one thing that the OpenFount guys have shown me is that they’re serious about the Infinidisk product. Mr. Donahue gave me a quick call this evening (seems my e-mail server and his e-mail server aren’t talking properly, so while I get his communications) he has not received mine (probably explaining the lack of [...]
I’m really very impressed with the speed at which the Openfount guys responded to my last post. I definitely give Kudos to Bill for being on top of things! I’m running out the door so I’ll keep this short and sweet. He’s right, I did generalize databases into InnoDB, but thats because it’s what I [...]
I mentioned a while back that I was going to be playing with the S3 Infinidisk Product. What I found in my testing was that this product is not prime time ready. There was a nasty bug which caused data to be lost if the mv command was used. The scripts themselves were unintuitive. They [...]
We all new that this would happen, google and microsoft going vying to build the biggest field of silicon trees. But what does this mean, and does it tie in with amazons latest service?! I think that undoubtedly it does. There’s talk about a last man standing game when it comes to internet bandwidth. And [...]
I’ve been kind of floating around this topic for a while… Well databases in general… And I see a lot of people who have rather high standards (which is not a bad thing.) I imagine the complication of offering a service like this comes from the fact that database people have very stringent standards. Things [...]
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 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 [...]
Disclaimer: these code segments have not been really “tested” verbatim. I assume anyone who is successfully bundling EC2 images (that run) will know enough about copying shell scripts off blogs to test for typos, etc! Oh, and, sorry for lack of indentation on these… I’m just not taking the time As I’ve been searching for [...]