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Benjamin Black
Personal blog · blog.b3k.ussystemsprogramming
Benjamin Black's personal blog at blog.b3k.us covers systems and programming. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “EC2 Origins (2009)”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Benjamin Black's 2009 post gives the origin story of Amazon's EC2. Commenters cite it to correct the claim that EC2 was built for excess capacity, and to describe how the service came about.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The blog of Benjamin Black
Most-linked posts?
- EC2 Origins (2009)12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2012-11-13
- Service Level Disagreements2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-22
What Hacker News says?
It's a common misconception. Chris Pinkham and Ben Black created it, and it never had anything to do with excess capacity. http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
Comment linking /2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
on “MonolithFirst”Submitted EC2 Origins (2009) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA different version of how EC2 came to be: http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
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on “When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux”Submitted Totally FLOSSed Out - a contrarian view of the gpl as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTry this blog post - http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
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on “How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare”Submitted EC2 Origin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
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on “Amazon’s New Customer”Submitted EC2 Origins (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Guess what AWS was developed for. EC2 being developed for internal use is more myth than fact. The original idea was for internal use, but didn't exist much beyond a "short paper"[1] until it was green-lighted (by Bezos) as an external/sellable service. [1] http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
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on “What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP”Submitted EC2 Origins (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPlease read https://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
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on “Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon”Submitted EC2 Origins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn case if you are wondering, Chris Pinkham[1] and Willem Van Biljon[2] came up with the idea. Here is the story: http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pinkham [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Van_Biljon
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on “An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business”Submitted Service Level Disagreements as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SLAs: refund not insurance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon EC2 Origins (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service Level Disagreements as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Origins of the Internet: Fundamental Publications as a story · 1 points
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