[plt-scheme] [OT] Scheme Jobs

Amazon's highest visibility use of Erlang is SimpleDB, their hosted  
key-value store. They published a whitepaper describing the design:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf

There's also an open-source implementation of Dynamo here:

http://github.com/cliffmoon/dynomite/tree/master

...and now I return the list to it's regular Scheme-related programming.

--Kevin
On Apr 18, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Geoffrey S. Knauth  
> <geoff at knauth.org> wrote:
>> On Apr 17, 2009, at 21:14, Kevin A. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> FWIW, Erlang is also picking up steam. I'm in the States and I'm  
>>> seeing a
>>> pick up in interest around Erlang. Of course, I might be a bit  
>>> biased since
>>> I do Erlang training and consulting ;-)
>>
>> Also, Amazon uses Erlang.
>>
>
> Interesting! I always wondered how amazon as a company works (from the
> software, stock, shipping perspective). Any interesting articles or
> books around about it?
>
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