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FWIW, Xerox shipped an all-Python product in 1997 called DocuShare. It is still being sold but was re-written in Java a few years later because they felt their customers wanted it …

With boto, I battled for years trying to avoid any dependencies. But that has a lot of negative side effects, too. One of the great things about Python is the amazing variety and q…

The rsync command uses a combination of file modtimes and file sizes as it's default algorithm. It's very fast and efficient. I agree, though, that like rsync, it would be good to …

I still think the Amazon S3 API is really nice.

It's a chicken/egg problem in that developers are saying I'm not porting because no one is using Python 3.x and users are saying I'm not moving to Python 3.x because none of my pac…

"Wall of Shame"? Really? As someone who's project appears on this list (and in the WRONG color) all I can say is that I don't think anyone is trying to dis Python 3.x. Support will…

If you are interested in REST API's, the best I've ever read is "RESTful Web Services" by Richardson & Ruby.

Actually, I'm wrong. It's eleven 9's. http://bit.ly/ageV9D

I suppose it's possible but S3 is designed for nine 9's wrt to durability. There are > 100 billion objects and I'm not aware of any being lost due to AWS fault.

There was a pretty lively exchange on twitter last night regarding this. I strongly disagree with the AWS forum poster. EBS does not suck. In fact, EBS and other services from AWS …

Variety is good but pushups are a fantastic core exercise. They really workout much more than your arms and you can do them anywhere. Plus, these workouts do build up a certain amo…

I have never seen a documented case of S3 losing data. Please provide references. I have recommended to some customers that they back up S3 data to the S3 service running in anothe…

The new planes like this Airbus do actually transmit real-time maintenance data. So, there were something like 10 transmissions from the plane that apparently include large amounts…