[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/16/2023 9:59 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:00:11 -0500
> Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Our former clients moved to "cloud solutions".  They learned rather
>> quickly that they would not have their prior capabilities.  Not sure just
>> how much business they can now handle, and, it's taking much more
>> manpower.  "But, it's what everyone else does."  Really?
> 
> 	So they did it badly - not uncommon. Amazon could not function
> without a distributed, scalable, fault tolerant system, there's no way you
> could run Amazon mainframe style. Even their core database is distributed,
> scalable and fault tolerant relying on guaranteed eventual consistency
> rather than ACID which does not scale.

I believe Amazon is using many different databases.

Some that provide traditional consistency (MySQL and AuroraDB) and
some that provide eventual consistency (DynamoDB and SimpleDB).

> 	McDonald's did it well.
> 
> <https://www.ciodive.com/news/mcdonalds-cloud-ETL-talend-digital-transformation/523132/

It seems that article is about DWH not operational data. Different.

Arne