@ CloudCon
Some cool stories. NYTimes build the Times Machine to convert and OCR all of their archives. This took 100 EC2 instances and about a half a day. The Washington post OCRed and indexed 17,000 pages of Hilary Clinton’s travel records in 11 hour for 142 bucks. Oh and S3 has 29 billion objects.
I’m west of Philadelphia, getting a feel for the current state of cloud computing. I’ve been using S3 for a while but after today I think I may try to move some systems over to EC2, see how it goes, especially now that Amazon has blocks (better coupling to persistent storage). AWS is also coming out out with Content Distribution Services to shorten the data hop.
Going to a talk in the afternoon entitled ‘be the cloud’. Not sure what to expect.
