Organizations continue to grapple with making a choice between building their own data center or using a public cloud infrastructure. It sure helps to learn about successful case studies of mainstream companies making a successful move to the cloud. Netflix, with a popular Netflix API of its own, has turned to a cloud provider to scale many areas of the video streaming company’s service.
When we wrote about APIs fueling an “instant” frenzy, there were only four mashups in our directory tagged instant. We’ve added more than that just this week, taking our total to 16 instant mashups. But the most common type of instant mashup may surprise you.
When Amazon recently implemented what it calls “efficiency guidelines” in its Amazon Product Advertising API, the online retail giant took some developers by surprise. The change was meant to limit access to sites that did not send buying customers. However, a change to your code is required to ensure that you receive the correct level of access. Those that didn’t make the change were subjected to the lowest limits. For some, that meant lost revenue–both to the developer and Amazon.
Lately we’ve seen some fun shopping mashups that aren’t just simple price comparison apps. Instead these use the APIs–mostly Amazon Product Advertising API–to track your collections, keep up-to-date with entertainment and find products in a fun, conversational way.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-Up Challenge returns for a fourth consecutive year. AWS is in search of startups that are using (or planning to use) any paid service from Amazon’s suite that includes Amazon Product Advertising API. AWS will award $50,000 in cash and over $140,000 in AWS credits.
If you’re developing mobile websites or native apps, you’d better take a closer look at the fine print. Some APIs, including one from Amazon, specifically exclude mobile applications. And there’s not much explanation–or logic–behind the exclusions.
Internet Archive have released a REST API that gives developers access to their historical snapshots of the web. It is based on the Amazon S3 API, and is currently the best way to access the Internet Archive data.
Want to sell something on your website? It’s easier than ever these days. Thanks to a growing number of APIs that are nothing short of “money,” you can start collecting some green yourself (ProgrammableWeb now lists over 100 e-commerce related APIs). This post will cover some of these APIs, as part of our Site in a Box series.
It can be hard to find good news regarding employment thanks the recent financial downturn. Apparently no one told Amazon, who have a post on their Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog announcing that they have lots of positions to fill.
With the recent explosion of cloud computing services, developers now have more opportunities than ever to take advantage of enterprise-scale computing platforms. However, most cloud computing services, such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), have unique and incompatible APIs. This has provided a challenge for organizations wanting to develop in-house applications that can later be seamlessly deployed directly to Amazon’s service when necessary. For example, Ubuntu Server, a Linux-based operating system supported by Europe’s Canonical Ltd, is the most widely deployed operating system on EC2, yet there has been no way for developers to create private, EC2-compatible cloud computing systems internally with Ubuntu.
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