Why Tarsnap won't use DynamoDBWhen I heard last Wednesday that Amazon was launching DynamoDB I was immediately excited. The "hard" server-side work for my Tarsnap online backup service consists mostly of two really big key-value maps, and I've spent most of the past two years trying to make those faster and more scalable. Having a key-value datastore service would make my life much simpler, I thought. Unfortunately, upon readi
