Breakfast Links 28.10.2008
CloudAve summarizes the current state of Amazon’s Cloud Computing services in terms of prices, support and technologies. Amazon’s EC2 and S3 is a really exciting alternative (to hardware machines) in the large-scale processing field because of the support of Hadoop MapReduce! For german readers, there is also an up to date article at Computerwoche. I’m currently writing an article on Mozenda and GoGrid – after those I’m going to check out Amazon EC2!
* Why Defining Distance Is Important
Distance (dissimilarity) of objects explained by a real case (crime) scenario. I really appreciate those practical examples!
