Erlang, or Utility-computing vs. Appliance-computing

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Because I don’t want to be hooked into the (proprietary) Google stack (Python, Django, BigTable, GoogleOS) just yet, I prefer using Amazon’s Web Services a.k.a. AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, etc).

I don't understand this statement given that 2/4 of the things he mentions in the Google stack are open source whereas none of the AWS ones are.

Yeah, there were some other weird linguistic nuggets. ("as sufficiently as possible"?)

If I had to guess, I'd say that his issue is that Google requires you to use a particular language, whereas Amazon doesn't? You're right, it's odd.

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