Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English
by SilasX on Saturday November 17, 2018 @11:49PM
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That still seems unnecessarily nitpicky and like it misses the point of the parallel. I'm reminded of the running joke on Californication:
"This is Santa Monica Cop. It's my innovative, original series about a hip, streetwise cop who brings his own brand of policing to a much wealthier area than he's used to."
'Oh, like ... Beverly Hills Cop, then?'
"Nah, you're not getting it! See, it's in Santa Monica!"
Yes, S3 doesn't natively allow retrieval/upload via the FTP protocol. But at the level of abstraction of "what does this service do for me, and why would I want to dig into the docs and incorporate it into my system?", the FTP analogy communicates the use case.
"This is S3. It's a way to map a bunch of keys -- which look like directories and naturally follow a kind of hierarchical structure -- to opaque blobs of data, allowing CRUD operations."
'Oh, like an FTP server, then?'
"Nah, you're not getting it! See, you talk to it with a different protocol."
"This is Santa Monica Cop. It's my innovative, original series about a hip, streetwise cop who brings his own brand of policing to a much wealthier area than he's used to."
'Oh, like ... Beverly Hills Cop, then?'
"Nah, you're not getting it! See, it's in Santa Monica!"
Yes, S3 doesn't natively allow retrieval/upload via the FTP protocol. But at the level of abstraction of "what does this service do for me, and why would I want to dig into the docs and incorporate it into my system?", the FTP analogy communicates the use case.
"This is S3. It's a way to map a bunch of keys -- which look like directories and naturally follow a kind of hierarchical structure -- to opaque blobs of data, allowing CRUD operations."
'Oh, like an FTP server, then?'
"Nah, you're not getting it! See, you talk to it with a different protocol."