Comments on: Amazon SimpleDB Runs on Erlang

By: Vidar Hokstad

Vidar Hokstad — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:27:47 +0000

The biggest problem with Amazon web services is price. They’re far more expensive than many other hosting services. Of course what you get for that is “unlimited” scalability, but frankly most web apps never need to scale far enough to make it worthwhile, and for those that do you always have the option of using a cheaper hosting alternative for the base load and using Amazon to handle peaks.

There are other issues too, such as lack of transparency in terms of their infrastructure, which matters for larger companies, but I believe they’ll address that soon enough. Whether they _can_ address price is another issue, sine even though you can scale, they need to bake the cost of having massive amount of infrastructure on standby to be able to offer it.

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By: Luke Hoersten

Luke Hoersten — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:02:20 +0000

A few months ago I was interviewing for Amazon and one of the interviewers confirmed that they do have a few teams that use Erlang. As long as they can expose a service to the other teams, they can use whatever technology they want. From what I understood though, it was one guy that was way into Erlang and when he moved teams, the code went a bit unmanaged.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:21:49 +0000

I ready the DOC…. all the DOC and nothing but the DOC.

I think SimpleDB has the potential to be a tipping point. Dare I be blasted for suggesting Web3.0. Well, not exactly… but at least there is a big picture to view.

My only concern is that in the DOC,

o many of the links are broken,
o the API seem to exclude erlang (and python),
o cannot sign up yet,
o the DOCs are vague on many points but enough for a tease.

I’m counting the days until I can implement a POC.

By: eliott

eliott — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:01:58 +0000

[couchDB][1] is also a very interesting project, just so happens it too is written in erlang.

These projects are giving people options for data storage and access. I think it is great!

[1]: http://couchdb.org/CouchDB/CouchDBWeb.nsf/Home?OpenForm

By: Dmitrii 'Mamut' Dimandt

Dmitrii 'Mamut' Dimandt — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:01:52 +0000

Web is getting an interesting place to be. I wonder when Amazon and Google will finally clash :)