"the engineers at quora, foursquare and reddit are very competent, and it's wrong to point the blame in that direction"
Excellent, excellent, EXCELLENT write-up of what why the application developers are not to blame today
SimpleDB gotcha
While carefully reading through the AWS Customer Agreement we found this interesting paragraph:
5.8.2 […] We may delete, without liability of any kind, any of your Amazon SimpleDB Content that has not been accessed in the previous 6 months.
Ouch!
While SimpleDB keeps surprising us, for our EC2 cluster management platform Scalarium we switched to CouchDB and Redis some time ago. Turns out SimpleDB is sometimes too simple.
— @jweiss
