http://www.zougg.com/blog Proof that I've Thought of These Things. Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:35:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon today launched a limited beta of the SimpleDB service. Unlike the S3, this service provides storage for structured data. In their developer documentation, this service is described as complementary to S3: Unlike Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB is not storing raw data. Rather, it takes your data ... http://www.zougg.com/blog/2007/12/14/amazon-simpledb-sds/ Using Apache as a reverse proxy to front application servers (like mod_jk with Tomcat) is a common pattern in web application architecture, including applications based on Weblogic or WebSphere. Weblogic for instance, has a load balancer module for clustering of app servers. In version 2.2 onward, the mod_proxy module of ... http://www.zougg.com/blog/2007/07/26/scaling-web-apps-with-apache-22-on-debian/ So I was told the other day that I had 48 hours to migrate one of my previous AMI (Amazon Machine Image) instances, because the instance was running on degraded hardware (which apparently had some hardware failure). Amazon was pro-active about it and had stopped billing for this particular ... http://www.zougg.com/blog/2007/07/14/running-amazon-ec2/ Well, here we go.  This is my very, very first post.  In true programming fashion, here's the prototypical "Hello World!" statement.  From this point on, this blog will document many interesting thoughts, opinions, and experiments, covering interesting topics-of-the-day in technology, commerce, and media.  At least that's the plan:  to create ... http://www.zougg.com/blog/2007/06/16/hello-world/