You are invited to join the Amazon SimpleDB team on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9am PST for the first session of our new Developers’ Brown Bag. During these once monthly webinar sessions, developers will hear from the technical experts behind SimpleDB, and have the opportunity to engage in live Q&A.

Interested developers may register by emailing simpledb-developer-brownbag@amazon.com. Please include name & AWS account ID. In addition, developers are encouraged to pre-submit any questions they may have, to allow for a more thorough response during the live webinar. For those struggling with the development of a new application, sample code and a description of the intended application may also be submitted for review and discussion.

The team is looking forward to speaking with developers on the 20th.

Amazon Web Services Blog: SimpleDB Developer's Brown Bag

The focus of this talk is concurrency-oriented
programming, as popularized recently by the
increasing prominence of the Functional
Programming Language, Erlang.

From POE to Erlang: YAPC::Asia 2008 - May 15-16th in Tokyo, JAPAN

The overall improvement between the two scenarios is tenfold, and is proportional to the number of parallel threads of execution. Some existing Amazon SimpleDB customers have reported good results when using anywhere from 30 to 50 threads. This technique could be combined with the exponential backoff algorithm we describe later in this article to find the optimal throughput level for your application and data set.

Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Building for Performance and Reliability with Amazon SimpleDB

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Welcome to the AWS Management Console
Access and manage Amazon's growing suite of infrastructure web services through our new point-and-click, web-based user interface. The AWS Management Console gives you a quick, global picture of your cloud computing environment so that you can see what resources you're operating and conveniently manage those resources. The initial release of the AWS Management Console provides a graphical user interface for Amazon EC2, with additional Amazon infrastructure services scheduled to be added to the console in the coming months.

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Frank Herbert, author of Dune, told ... how he had once been approached by a friend who claimed he (the friend) had a killer idea for a SF story, and offered to tell it to Herbert. In return, Herbert had to agree that if he used the idea in a story, he'd split the money from the story with this fellow. Herbert's response was that ideas were a dime a dozen; he had more story ideas than he could ever write in a lifetime. The hard part was the writing, not the ideas.

Herbert might as well have been talking about technology. Don't get me wrong. Ideas are important. Research is critical to advancing our society. But when it comes to commercialization, it is only a small part of the puzzle.

GT VentureLab: It's the Execution, not the Idea that Matters

Chapter 25. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication

Database servers can work together to allow a second server to take over quickly if the primary server fails (high availability), or to allow several computers to serve the same data (load balancing). Ideally, database servers could work together seamlessly. Web servers serving static web pages can be combined quite easily by merely load-balancing web requests to multiple machines. In fact, read-only database servers can be combined relatively easily too. Unfortunately, most database servers have a read/write mix of requests, and read/write servers are much harder to combine. This is because though read-only data needs to be placed on each server only once, a write to any server has to be propagated to all servers so that future read requests to those servers return consistent results.

PostgreSQL: Documentation: Manuals: PostgreSQL 8.3: High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication

SimpleDB/dev provides a local SimpleDB server, so you can develop offline, without even currently having a SimpleDB account.

Now supports Linux, OS X and Windows >=XP.

simpledb-dev - Google Code

Using SimpleDB Management Tools, you can create and delete domains, view the contents of your domains, run queries and edit and save data, using the kind of visual interface familiar from traditional databases such as SQL Server or MySQL. SimpleDB Management Tools installs itself as a data provider in Server Explorer, from where you can navigate your domains and launch query windows. Click here to find out more.

Too bad its behind the MS iron curtain.

Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive » SimpleDB Management Tools Released

Because their API is simple, this WSDL is actually good documentation. I've never seen that happen before... always had WSDL be a Visual Studio generated total nightmare.

Amazon SImpleDB WSDL

Wow, about time.

Something new from Google!

Picasa for Mac: Free download from Google