Had to look... but the steaks and strippers thing is from Zed Shaw, Example 2 in this: http://zedshaw.com/essays/control_and_responsibility.html http://zedshaw.

Had to look... but the steaks and strippers thing is from Zed Shaw, Example 2 in this: http://zedshaw.com/essays/control_and_responsibility.html http://zedshaw.com/essays/control_and_responsibility.html I too think PostgreSQL should be in there... and I can't see why it isn't given that Amazon have the EBS already and are probably putting Oracle on that already. The same technique could easily take PostgreSQL. Note: EBS = Elastic Block Storage which is Amazon's low level raw block storage solution: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/