Archive For February 15, 2008

HealthVault Service

I recently was in a meeting with several physicians. One of them reported a result I have always suspected, but at a magnitude I never would have guessed. The core observation was that that 80% of medical diagnoses were incorrect. The other doctors in the room confirmed this number to be roughly consistent with their…

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Downtime: Amazon S3, SimpleDB, SQS, …

If you run a big service and claim to have never had down time you either 1) have close to zero customers or 2) are lying. It’s almost that simple. There is considerable concern that Amazons AWS service was down for several hours: · http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/amazons_s3_util.php · http://gigaom.com/2008/02/15/amazon-s3-service-goes-down/ · http://www.centernetworks.com/amazon-s3-down-error Thanks to Jeff Currier and Soumitra…

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