Many people seem to associate AWS with EC2, and make comparisons with that assumption. For us EC2 was a small part of the decision.
As stated in the article other AWS services (ELB, SQS, Route53, DynamoDB,etc), multiple locations, all through APIs were the main factors for selecting AWS as well.
Don't use code that only runs on Linux. Swapping one monoculture for another isn't an improvement.
If you're writing stuff for server use, and it's not being tested on a few Unix implementations, you're quickly working towards being a single-platform monoculture. This limits your options if a platform falls out of favor or is EOL'ed by a vendor.
It's a good thing that OS X is so popular among the hacker set - if it wasn't, I think the quagmire would be even deeper.
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Many people seem to associate AWS with EC2, and make comparisons with that assumption. For us EC2 was a small part of the decision. As stated in the article other AWS services (ELB, SQS, Route53, DynamoDB,etc), multiple locations, all through APIs were the main factors for selecting AWS as well.
Does anyone know what "Bode" is? He referenced it as something related to node but a quick search on DDG and github show nothing.
woops! thanks!
Don't use code that only runs on Linux. Swapping one monoculture for another isn't an improvement.
If you're writing stuff for server use, and it's not being tested on a few Unix implementations, you're quickly working towards being a single-platform monoculture. This limits your options if a platform falls out of favor or is EOL'ed by a vendor.
It's a good thing that OS X is so popular among the hacker set - if it wasn't, I think the quagmire would be even deeper.