We discussed Brewer’s Theorm a few days ago and how its challenging to obtain Consistency, Availability and Partition tolerance in any distributed system. We also discussed that many of the distributed datastores allow CAP to be tweaked to attain certain operational goals.
Amazon SimpleDB, which was released as an “Eventually Consistent” datastore,  today launched a [...]

A few years ago I wrote a simple online bookmarking tool called Flagthis. The tool allowed one to bookmark sites using a javascript bookmarklet from the bookmark tab. The problem it was trying to solve is that most links people bookmark are never used again if they are not checked out within the next few [...]