Moving to the Cloud (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

There's a paradigm shift going on in the industry about how we deal with computing infrastructure. Services such as Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, and various other cloud infrastructure providers are changing the way that companies think about writing, hosting, and deploying web applications. At Yahoo!, we're also getting on the cloud. Our deep involvement with Hadoop is the best-known ex

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"The CAP says that all distributed systems have unavoidable trade-offs between consistency (all records are the same in all replicas), availability (all replicas can accept updates or inserts), and tolerance of network partitions (the system still functions when distributed replicas cannot talk to e