DNS is a symptom of broken search #sopa

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]

Marcus Povey

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]

Tips for building web services on Amazon AWS

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]

Marcus Povey

Amazon, who are most widely known for their online shop, has another project called Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering website authors a collection of very powerful hosting tools as well as hybrid cloud services. This is not a sideline for Amazon – a recent conversation I had with an Amazon guy I met at a Barcamp revealed […]