Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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Good summary of what happened a few weeks ago when S3 disappeared for a day.
I didn’t get a chance to post this before, but it’s a pretty significant story, I think. Fanzter’s Facebook app, OneThing, leverages EC2 and S3. You can hit the link below or check out TechCrunch’s take.
It actually looks pretty good. Now they just need to get EC2 out of beta and get that an SLA and the world is perfect.
Interesting question. Curious what the comments will be like…
I tried this out today while messing with EC2 and it works pretty well. I only did very basic stuff (create/delete buckets, upload a file), but it worked great.
The folks behind SmugMug explain how they saved $500K a year switching from managing their own storage to using Amazon S3. Interesting read.
(via this site)
