Episode 22: 22: I Would Not Build Underground

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin decompress after WWDC, then discuss Apple's (apparent) iCloud data center strategy, comparing it to other successful online service companies: Amazon, Google, and Facebook. John also recounts his one and only remotely significant interaction with Steve Jobs. Links for this episode:Apple iCloud Azure use tested, confirmed - InfiniteAppleWindows AzureWhat Datacenter Equipment Is Apple Using? - Stephen FoskettBig data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon's scale-out storage solutionMapReduce - WikipediaGoogle File System - WikipediaBigTable - WikipediaAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud - WikipediaOpen Compute ProjectScribe (Distributed Logging Service) - WikipediaApache Thrift - WikipediaHipHop for PHP - WikipediaOS X Lion - AppleApple Dropping the 'Mac' From 'Mac OS X'? - Daring FireballWWDC 1997 Steve Jobs Closing Keynote - YouTubeSponsored by FreshBooks and Sound Studio 4.