Andraž Tori

"Oh, I totally forgot to mention one iteration we did before coming to P2P solution. We had access to Amazon SimpleDB while it was still in beta. We did a "use a SimpleDB table as a shared memory" concept. That didn't work well. The problem with SimpleDB for this kind of situation is that read after write will not necessary return what you have just written. And delays were way to long for it to work, we were getting network partitioning all the time, so we were back to the drawing table. However we do use SimpleDB for some other parts of our system. Maybe we'll describe that in one of the future posts." - Andraž Tori

"Unfortunately today I can't come to Hadoop meetup. Anyone willing to record it, please? :) However I am now living in San Francisco. Where are you/lucid based?" - Andraž Tori

"Hi tani! Yeah, there needs to be a whole matrix of properties and these solutions laid out on them. This is all about balancing the requirements in one way or another and you can't have it all. It's gonna be a gold mine for writers of white-papers and analysts. However the question for architects right now is which solutions are here to stay and we can bet our infrastructures on. This is even more important than perfect fit to business needs, because when you chose something that goes away and is not maintained anymore you really need to spend a lot of resources to switch. To anyone wanting to know more about CAP theorem, I'd suggest reading http://www.julianbrowne.com/article......" - Andraž Tori