Last.fm interview with CNET →
What I found interesting - they use SSDs for serving out popular radio streams and regular HDDs for the rest of their streams. Streaming is done via regular Linux boxes running MogileFS.
Welcome, my name is Harish Mallipeddi. I work for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blog is mostly a dump of interesting articles that I come across on the web. Topics span across multiple areas including algorithms/datastructures, NoSQL stores, database internals, web-scale challenges, and functional languages.
What I found interesting - they use SSDs for serving out popular radio streams and regular HDDs for the rest of their streams. Streaming is done via regular Linux boxes running MogileFS.
