frankietaylr

Fascinating read. Great work on the research. Where do you think it will go from here?

But if they started charging even 1$/user/year, most of the 450M users might not be on the platform. There are other free platforms offered with similar functionality. Security/Privacy is not a concern for a lot of that 450M users.

Can you elaborate this setup a bit more?

I tried a simple search query (test) with no javascript versions and the one with javascript enabled and the results are different.

Has Postgres architecture changed since Postgres 9.2 in terms of the inefficiencies mentioned in the article?

I don't have much expertise with Timestream. Can't comment on it. But, there is nothing wrong in trying for an alternate implementation. We're using Kinesis and it is a good fit in our stack with lot less overhead. They did bring Kakfa (Amazon MSK) later to the AWS service list. Its upto the consumer to pick Kinesis or MSK.

One example which was influential in nature - Dyanmodb. The Dyanmodb paper inspired a number of NoSQL databases, including Apache Cassandra. If they have went with the popular NoSQL database at that time, we might have missed some good contribution.

Does Apple gain anything from AWS for forcing it to rent for a minimum period of 24 hours?

Its a different story when not much market share is present compared to when its a monopoly/duopoly where there is no other option.

We tested http api call response times. Hosting application region is AWS us-east-1. Created VMs outside AWS in other regions and tried to access it through browser. Tested the setup before and after enabling AWS Global Accelerator and hardly noticed any difference.