Author: Jeff Barr

I’ll be presenting to the New England VB Professionals Group in Waltham on Thursday, April 5th. Hope to see you there! If you’d like to meet on Friday, April 6 I still have some time open. Am planning to fly back out of Hartford, CT so anyone west of the Boston Metro area is welcome […]

March and April is definitely conference season for us. Here are two more upcoming events: On Friday, March 23rd I will be judging the Under the Radar “Why Office 2.0” competition in Santa Clara, California. Registering through that link will entitle you to a $100 VIP discount. On Monday, March 27th I will be speaking […]

We have a new article in our Developer Connection! In Mounting Amazon S3 as a File System in Amazon EC2, AWS developer Bill Donahue shows how to use the S3InfiniDisk product to mount Amazon S3 as a file system in Amazon EC2. Using S3InfiniDisk, data written to a mounted Linux file system is written to […]

On Thursday, April 26th, Amazon Web Services and the Madrona Venture Group will be co-hosting The Start-Up Project in Seattle. Running from 2 to 7 PM, this fast-paced event is designed for entrepreneurs, founders and leaders of start-ups and early-stage companies, and VCs. We’ll have a couple of hours of demos and presentations with plenty […]

AWS user Bill Boebel of Webmail.us will be presenting at the upcoming ISPCON conference in Orlando, Florida. Bill’s talk will cover the use of Amazon S3 to create a successful email archiving service. Here’s the official description: With the advent of utility-based services such as the Amazon Web Services S3 Storage Grid, new applications and […]

Conference season gets underway for the AWS Developer Relations team later this month. We will be speaking at and/or exhibiting at a number of events. Here’s our itinerary: March 19-23, SDWest in Santa Clara, California. AWS developers can get registere here and get a free expo pass (or $300 off of a VIP pass) using […]

Over at TechCrunch, Mike Arrington recently shared some of his concerns about linking to up and coming new sites. Any site featured on TechCrunch will see a huge inflow of traffic when seemingly everyone the tech world visits it within the course of a couple of hours to check it out: Theres a spike, and […]

I am heading down to Provo, Utah next week to speak to the Utah Valley Ruby Brigade on the night of the 13th. I had a couple of leads for interesting meetings during the day, but they didnt’ pan out. If you would like to chat about the Amazon Web Services and are in the […]

A few weeks ago I was in Manhattan and looked up Howard Greenstein. It was Howard’s last day at NYU, because he’s going full-time with his new venture: Social Media Club. Their official description is that “Social Media Club (SMC), is a global knowledge market for users and creators of emerging media. Professionals in industries […]

While I was in Utah last month, Professor Phil Windley interviewed Doug Kaye and I for his Technometria podcast. You can listen to the podcast here. We covered Amazon S3 and EC2, and then moved on to Doug’s new podcast processing architecture, which uses EC2, S3, and also SQS to support the entire Gigavox Lite […]