tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post115868143030073576..comments2024-03-24T10:38:16.997-07:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Diagnosing failures in Amazon's systemsGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1159124280425796312006-09-24T11:58:00.000-07:002006-09-24T11:58:00.000-07:00Greg,Amazon can't eliminate all dependencies. What...Greg,<BR/><BR/>Amazon can't eliminate all dependencies. What they can do is choose the dependencies. Presumably what Werner is saying is that by building a core of high-availability web services developers can concentrate on using those services efficiently rather than having to program around their occasional absence. <BR/><BR/>Of course, this creates a potentially unstable house of cards. Yet over time, using Maya and other tools, Amazon should be able to wring the bugs out of each service and increase its availablilty to MVS levels.<BR/><BR/>Is this really so different from the internet's reliance on distributed services such as DNS?<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/><BR/>Robin Harris<BR/>StorageMojo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com