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jlebar on Sept 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Web Services in Plain English

I have to say that I think "glacier" is an inspired name. It takes a negative -- slow data retrieval -- and turns it into a positive -- indestructible, huge, unstoppable.

jonkiddy on Sept 11, 2015 [–]

I completely agree. It is a great name for the service.

"There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." ~ Jeff Atwood

MichaelGG on Sept 11, 2015 | | [–]

Jeff Atwood did not come up with that quote.

spdionis on Sept 11, 2015 | | [–]

I count 4 hard things there.

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