To dissect the Facebook cloud cloud storage thing

Science and engineering students have a stereotyped thinking, all things accustomed to seriously. For the same problem, like to list a variety of possible solutions, and then compare horizontally, see which one is more reliable. The debate is about being reasonable and insulting. The abuse is regarded as "urgent", and "urgent" basically equate with liquciqiong, disorderly a square inch.

The world will code Chinese characters, including mainland, Taiwan, and drifting overseas students, at one point in Alt.chinese.txt together chat. Chat topic is very messy, do not know when, someone talked about Ming history. At the beginning, not the whole article, but the words, said some anecdotes of the Ming Dynasty, mixed with a gag discussion. A joke often leads to more jokes, so more and more jokes about Ming history are becoming a system.

Search on the Internet, only to find the Ark of the Ming History sketch series [2]. In fact, the Ark of this series, is in the chat with other netizens gradually completed. Unfortunately, other netizens, such as the "howling" of the Ming History of the story, but did not find.

To talk about serious academic problems and become Alt.chinese.txt's language features. The so-called not serious, not frivolous, but relaxed. Only in depth can shallow, want to talk about academic issues very relaxed, first of all to understand profoundly.

With the wrong strokes, writing very serious academic issues, is not only suitable for literature and history and popular science articles? In fact, the most cutting-edge academic discussions often take place at the café and the dining room table. For example, the encoding for various languages around the world, UTF-8, is Ken Thompson and Rob Pike of Bell Lab, and in a small restaurant waiting to serve, in a noisy atmosphere filled with food and wine, you speak to me in a word [3].

The previous blog post mentions Dynamo, which is the core technology of Amazon's cloud storage service S3 (simple Storage service). Amazon's CTO and others have written a paper devoted to the Dynamo design principle [4], which is written in a well-organized, not branched, and worth reading.

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has the reader's advice to introduce Dynamo's design ideas, incidentally, other similar but competitive technologies, such as Google's Bigtable [5]. This is a good suggestion, perhaps can try, the solemn paper, split into less serious jokes, so that everyone can on the commute, pondering the cutting-edge technical problems, to pass the long wait time.