Mandarin Soda

Meant to post this nice synopsis of a much longer technical paper detailing Amazon’s distributed key-value storage system earlier this month. While Dynamo is not yet offered as a public API from Amazon, the author conjectures that it someday might, which leads to myy favorite quote from the article:

Finally, Amazon is showing openness - a highly valuable characteristic. Surely, Google and Microsoft have similar systems, but Amazon is putting them out in the open and turning its infrastructure into a business faster than its competitors. It is this openness that will allow Amazon to build trust and community around their Web Services stack. It is a powerful force, which is likely to win over developers and business people as well.

Interesting stuff indeed…

And in case you were wondering, Mandarin Soda failed to win, place or show in Amazon’s Startup Challenge. Maybe next time….

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