[Seaside] S3 (was Scaling Seaside apps)

[Colin Putney]

On Aug 1, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Blanchard, Todd wrote:

> You should realize that S3 provides availability over consistency.   
> It is quite possible that you can put a chunk of data, ask for it  
> back, and get the previous version due to propagation delays across  
> the replicated store.  Great for backups, not so hot for real time  
> usage.

Ah, but it's a very good match for Monticello usage patterns. In  
Monticello, each version of a package is immutable, and identified by  
a UUID. This means that clients don't have to coordinate when  
creating new versions and we can't get "old" versions. A version is  
either available or it isn't; its content can never change.