I've heard good things about them too. Probably just some broken widget between my desk in Sydney and their servers somewhere in North America.
I'm kind of interested in the way many of those large-scale sites have to prioritise availability over response time due to their architecture. At least, that seems to be the way services like GAE work. They guarantee uptime, but latency for things like database queries tends to be fixed and not that fast.
I'm kind of interested in the way many of those large-scale sites have to prioritise availability over response time due to their architecture. At least, that seems to be the way services like GAE work. They guarantee uptime, but latency for things like database queries tends to be fixed and not that fast.