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Google Woos Developers at I/O

By Nitin Borwankar May. 29, 2008, 10:30am PT 3 Comments

The first day of Google I/O seemed like a coming out party for Google App Engine, the company’s competitive threat to Amazon AWS. For one, the registrations were thrown open to everyone, and for another, two new APIs were released: the image manipulation API, and… Read More »

Data Property Rights, Not Portability

By Nitin Borwankar Feb. 6, 2008, 12:00am PT 32 Comments

Data portability is a non-solution to a non-problem. An alternate approach, one that supports strong-terms-of- service guarantees from web app vendors and includes terms that guarantee four data property rights, would pretty much render data portability a non-issue. Read More »

Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters

By Nitin Borwankar Dec. 14, 2007, 12:22pm PT 59 Comments

SimpleDB is hugely disruptive. Sure, it will take some time to evolve the new thinking patterns and new design disciplines that this technology forces us to consider. To do so, consider this breakdown of the similarities and differences between SimpleDB and conventional relational databases. Read More »

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