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Is this based on Amazon S3 because you have that at hand, or is it based on it because of some innate advantage?

• bglusman 13y ago
  A little bit of both I guess? It's become standard enough that most web developers (at least most I know) have an account and use it for a few things here and there, it's dirt cheap and widely available, and it's just text files we're storing, so nothing more heavy weight is needed. It does also offer versioning, which I believe we may add a feature to take advantage of for rolling back configuration changes in a coherent way if something goes wrong or to recreate a problem locally on a certain date, but don't think we've started even planning that yet (pull requests welcome!)
  • toomuchtodo 13y ago
    Don't forget that its highly durable. When was the last time S3 was down?
  • tobowers 13y ago
    And, importantly, has ACL controls built in so it's easy to add/remove access to team members.
  • lox 13y ago
    Have you had any issues with eventual consistency? Does this need to be run on US-west or EU for read-after-write consistency?
• nodata 13y ago
  Amazon is not involved in Prism, it seems. So that helps.