[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:51:04 -0500
Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> On 11/16/2023 9:59 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> > 	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.

	AWS provides many databases. Dynamo was created to support Amazon's
original core business of being a huge international shopping site.

> > 	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.

	It's about analytics that record every sale in every McDonald's in
the world and drives their decision making. The point is that it scales
beyond anything that could be done on a mainframe.

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