Posts Tagged ‘AMAZON’

Amazon S3 as a Live Blogging & Digg Effect Solution

June 14, 2007 – 4:09 pm
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A couple of bloggers decided to give Amazon’s S3 service (Simple Storage Solution) a shot at handling the live blogging of an Apple keynote blog. Any site that has tried to handle this in the past has been overwhelmed with traffic and hopelessly crippled.

Their solution was to write a simple admin tool that copied the updated html to an S3 bucket and let S3 handle the load. In a follow-up post the bloggers share more about the experiment and the success they had with it. They also share some impressive Event Stats:

  • 7 pictures
  • 130 text posts
  • 20k visits
  • 50k pageviews to the page
  • 5M requests - this includes the 15 second content refresh and the images.
  • 47GB of transfer
  • content was 17k, images were 200k.

Cost for the event: $10!!!! Wow, amazing! The success they had got me thinking about the “Digg Effect” and Read More »

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Used Books & Coupon Codes

May 23, 2007 – 11:01 pm
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If you’re buying books on a regular basis, consider buying used on Amazon.com. Used savings is probably in the neighborhood of 30% on average but if you’re lucky you can do much better.

Get additional savings from online coupon codes as well. Finding online coupons can often be a hit or miss type of thing. I find that many sites returned by Google often contain only codes that have expired or have ridiculous restrictions.

I came across a new online coupons codes site called Coupon Chief that seems to organize things in a pretty intuitive fashion (here is the Coupon Chief link to Amazon coupons). If you know of any other sites out there that you prefer or find helpful please share!

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