{"id":62,"date":"2007-12-15T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewansilver.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/amazon-db-and-erlang\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T22:48:09","slug":"amazon-db-and-erlang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/amazon-db-and-erlang\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon DB and Erlang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world and it&#8217;s dog is jumping on the <tag>Amazon<\/tag> <tag><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/browse.html?node=342335011\">SimpleDB<\/a><\/tag> announcement. Interesting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satine.org\/archives\/2007\/12\/13\/amazon-simpledb\/\">note<\/a> that apparently (big caveat there!) it is built on <tag><a href=\"http:\/\/erlang.org\/\">Erlang<\/a><\/tag>.<\/p>\n<p>I am keen to see how the DB heads respond to this. I also want to see how how long it takes for people to get their heads around the <tag>eventual consistency<\/tag> model it employs. The use of an eventual consistency model is often a critical factor in being able to scale any ultra large system but the concept scares many people to death (and thats only the people who realise what it means!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world and it&#8217;s dog is jumping on the Amazon SimpleDB announcement. Interesting to note that apparently (big caveat there!) it is built on Erlang. I am keen to see how the DB heads respond to this. I also want to see how how long it takes for people to get their heads around the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/amazon-db-and-erlang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon DB and Erlang<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distributed-computing","category-general","category-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}