Reflection from Pat Helland about Amazon S3 outrage

The post titled "Confidence in the Cloud" by Data guru Pat is really worth reading. Interesting quotations from his post:

the implementations which sent the minimum amount of data seemed to be the most resilient.

which leads to

Communicating less information within a message is usually best. If you send extra stuff, it can cause corruption!

For cloud, he predicts

As I look at data center cost structures, it is clear that it is going to be a competitive business with many advantages to large data center managers with large economies of scale. In a handful of years, most companies will look to offsite providers for their reliable servers.