Archive for July, 2008
Amazon Web Services Experiencing Outages
My development on a photo sharing site has ground to a halt in the wake of an outage that’s lasted since this morning. Amazon S3 and Simple Queue Service are affected according to the AWS Service Health Dashboard.
Sites such as SmugMug are also experiencing an outage as a direct result.
The high availability shortcomings of S3 today reminds me of one of the Google mantras which is to “design with failure in mind”.
The Slip Does Not Disappoint
The newest album from Nine Inch Nails, “The Slip”, is a fresh downward spiral into the musical mind of Trent Reznor. This album continues a great new trend since Trent has freed himself from the clutches of corporate record companies.
Oh and did I mention that the album is offered free from the NIN website?