So I attended a conference today held in London to learn about and develop commercial ideas concerning ENUM.
ENUM allows businesses and individuals to publish their telephone number (fixed or mobile) within DNS records so that VoIP clients and providers may look them up and provide a more direct connection to number owners.
The initial goal is [...]
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Given the clear advantages of cloud computing and the industry momentum (slowly) toward VoIP and complementary technologies (think XMPP) I thought it might prove an interesting exercise to install Asterisk on an Amazon EC2 instance.
My preferred operating system is Debian GNU/Linux. Instances are available with Debian (various versions) pre-installed. Theoretically it should be only a [...]
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So there have been plenty of web sites and services affected by today’s big Amazon S3 outage. Smugmug, Twitter, WordPress.com and JungleDisk amongst the casualties to various degrees. Developers have been venting their frustration at seeing their applications fail because of something they relied on.
So what are the alternatives?
Any CTO will tell you that moving [...]
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According to iehiapk: “I was under the apparently false impression that S3 was a high-availability service. We may have to evaluate other services now. This makes us look like a bunch of amateurs.”
I would like to ask precisely what he defines as a “high-availability service”. Five-nines? Sorry, the Amazon S3 SLA says three nines only. If [...]
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Well I returned to check my giant photos upload that JungleDisk was sending to my Amazon S3 account and it had stopped.
The log showed a whole pile of HTTP error codes which any self-respecting technophile will realise means a serious fault is occurring. The S3 forums document the first errors from 0858PDT although JungleDisk for [...]
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It’s now nearly one month since we visited Portugal and I thought high time I ought to write my notes on it. Photographs will follow once I’ve whittled the several hundred down to a more manageable number.
I’ll start with our hotel which is located about 0.5km inland from the beach. You you need to walk [...]
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Decided to check out Amazon S3 and it’s practical uses first. This is Jungle Disk.
Jungle Disk is like traditional software in that it is downloaded and run by your desktop computer. It gives a point-and-click interface to select which files and folders to back up and over what schedule (if any). The above screenshot was [...]
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I have recently been looking into architecture of web applications. It follows some interest in Amazon’s EC2 and S3 products where you rent data center resources.
And as if Amazon read my mind, my pre-order of Baron Schwartz’s (et. al) High Performance MySQL (2nd Ed) arrived yesterday (Saturday). It’s certainly a thick book covering all sorts [...]
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