"web services" entries
Amazon's Non-Media Products Show Growth
New financials show a slight dip in the total percentage of Amazon's revenue generated by books, DVDs and other media. From MarketWatch: Amazon is also relying less on sales of media products such as books, DVDs and music, which has been its historical strength. In the second quarter, media sales accounted for 59% of the company's total revenue compared to…
Service Monitoring Dashboards are mandatory for production services!
Google App Engine went down earlier today. GAE is still a developer preview release, and currently lacks a public monitoring dashboard. Unfortunately this means that many people either found out from their app and/or admin consoles being unavailable or from Mike Arrington's post on TechCrunch. Google has a strong Web Operations culture, and there are numerous internal monitoring tools in…