Episode 22
22: I Would Not Build Underground
June 17th, 2011
1 hr 17 mins 14 secs
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About this Episode
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin decompress after WWDC, then discuss Apple's (apparent) iCloud data center strategy, comparing it to other successful online service companies: Amazon, Google, and Facebook. John also recounts his one and only remotely significant interaction with Steve Jobs.
Links for this episode:
- Apple iCloud Azure use tested, confirmed - InfiniteApple
- Windows Azure
- What Datacenter Equipment Is Apple Using? - Stephen Foskett
- Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon's scale-out storage solution
- MapReduce - Wikipedia
- Google File System - Wikipedia
- BigTable - Wikipedia
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Wikipedia
- Open Compute Project
- Scribe (Distributed Logging Service) - Wikipedia
- Apache Thrift - Wikipedia
- HipHop for PHP - Wikipedia
- OS X Lion - Apple
- Apple Dropping the 'Mac' From 'Mac OS X'? - Daring Fireball
- WWDC 1997 Steve Jobs Closing Keynote - YouTube
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