Comments for post past :: james murty http://www.jamesmurty.com Contemplating the brave new present Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:19:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Persistent Storage in EC2 later this year by Willem http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/04/14/persistent-storage-in-ec2-later-this-year/#comment-32 Willem Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:40:50 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/04/14/persistent-storage-in-ec2-later-this-year/#comment-32 James Thanks for this information about Persistant Storage. It is very helpful. I have added your blog feed to my RSS Reader and I am looking forward to reading your blog! Best regards Willem James

Thanks for this information about Persistant Storage. It is very helpful.

I have added your blog feed to my RSS Reader and I am looking forward to reading your blog!

Best regards

Willem

]]> Comment on Persistent Storage in EC2 later this year by Thorsten - CTO RightScale http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/04/14/persistent-storage-in-ec2-later-this-year/#comment-30 Thorsten - CTO RightScale Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:08:12 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/04/14/persistent-storage-in-ec2-later-this-year/#comment-30 James, thanks for linking to our blog. You are very correct that Amazon has to be careful about the ecosystem of third-party vendors they are creating. We keep in constant touch to ensure that we're building on top of AWS and stay out of their roadmap. I know that they've been in touch with the other persistent storage solution vendors, so at least they've been communicating. Before providing value-add services in the AWS ecosystem it's important to think about what Amazon is likely to do themselves and to talk to them. They've been very secretive, but things they're starting to open up and if you have a serious project they will talk. James, thanks for linking to our blog. You are very correct that Amazon has to be careful about the ecosystem of third-party vendors they are creating. We keep in constant touch to ensure that we’re building on top of AWS and stay out of their roadmap. I know that they’ve been in touch with the other persistent storage solution vendors, so at least they’ve been communicating. Before providing value-add services in the AWS ecosystem it’s important to think about what Amazon is likely to do themselves and to talk to them. They’ve been very secretive, but things they’re starting to open up and if you have a serious project they will talk.

]]> Comment on Programming Amazon Web Services is published by Charles Rice http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/03/26/paws_published/#comment-5 Charles Rice Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:38:14 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/03/26/paws_published/#comment-5 Congratulations James. I will work with the Developer Relations folks to get a mention and a link on the AWS web site! Congratulations James. I will work with the Developer Relations folks to get a mention and a link on the AWS web site!

]]> Comment on Amazon is planning to add “copy” support to S3 by Amazon is planning to add “copy” support to S3 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/03/22/s3_copy_proposal/#comment-4 Amazon is planning to add “copy” support to S3 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:20:40 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/03/22/s3_copy_proposal/#comment-4 [...] Jason wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAmazon AWS developers are planning to add a new “copy” feature to the Simple Storage Service (S3) API that will make it possible to copy your data objects to a new location in the service. This feature could be used to rename objects … [...] […] Jason wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAmazon AWS developers are planning to add a new “copy” feature to the Simple Storage Service (S3) API that will make it possible to copy your data objects to a new location in the service. This feature could be used to rename objects … […]

]]> Comment on Major S3 and AWS outage leaves us in the dark in more ways than one by James Murty http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-3 James Murty Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:28:19 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-3 Yes, there are a number of apps that you could use to monitor web services like S3. Nagios would be a good example [http://www.nagios.org/]. Such monitoring would let you know if the service was not responding to requests, but it wouldn't give you any insight into what was wrong or what the service-provider was doing about it. It also requires that you configure, manage and run an application to monitor the service – which is a burden that Amazon shouldn't impose on its users. Yes, there are a number of apps that you could use to monitor web services like S3. Nagios would be a good example [http://www.nagios.org/].

Such monitoring would let you know if the service was not responding to requests, but it wouldn’t give you any insight into what was wrong or what the service-provider was doing about it. It also requires that you configure, manage and run an application to monitor the service – which is a burden that Amazon shouldn’t impose on its users.

]]> Comment on Major S3 and AWS outage leaves us in the dark in more ways than one by chris.mylonas http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-2 chris.mylonas Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:44:56 +0000 http://www.jamesmurty.com/2008/02/16/major-s3-and-aws-outage-leaves-us-in-the-dark-in-more-ways-than-one/#comment-2 JM, Are there any packages available to do monitoring of web services - a kind of heartbeat [http://www.linux-ha.org] for web services? CM JM,
Are there any packages available to do monitoring of web services - a kind of heartbeat [http://www.linux-ha.org] for web services?
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