The Amazon Technology Platform

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 16, 2006 @09:24PM from the under-the-covers dept.

Don420 writes "Jim Gray has an interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels for ACM Queue. It is filled with a lot of details about the Amazon architecture that we have not seen before: 'If you hit the Amazon.com gateway page, the application calls more than 100 services to collect data and construct the page for you.' But also quite a strong statements about developing software at Amazon: 'Developers of our services can use any tools they see fit to build their services. [...] Whatever tools are necessary, we provide them, and then get the hell out of the way of the developers so that they can do their jobs. [...] Developers are like artists; they produce their best work if they have the freedom to do so, but they need good tools.'"

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Err , so what? by Viol8 · 2006-05-16 23:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You seriously think a web page its the pinnacle of large data access?
I work in a bank where we process terabytes of data a day, and no we
don't use 100 services everytime we need to access a load of data. We
use a few f*ck off big RDMBSs and some Big Iron.

Don't make out that serving up a web page is a big deal , compared to
real hard code data processing its mickey mouse.