aws start-up tour 2007 / headcase
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HeadCase Humanufacturing, AWS Start-Up Tour 2007, Santa MonicaTRANSCRIPT
PACO NATHAN
AWS Start-Up Project, Santa Monica 2007-10-23
Using AWS
HeadCase Humanufacturing
• Technology start-up based in LA
• Founded 2006-06, A series funding
• 8 employees, plus contractors
• TrueVentures early-stage portfolio http://trueventures.com
Early-Stage Strategy
• Enter market early, limited budget, speculative approaches
• “Fail fast”: see what sticks among customers
• Hopefully some aspect scales rapidly, unexpectedly
• Avoid getting locked into SLAs
(T2 script, IMSDB.com)
(T2 poster)
(Facebook text)
(Facebook screen) Wall-to-Wall Dialog:
(SecondLife text)
(SecondLife screen)
Whether people are involved in a web community, a social network, an online game, a virtual world... they are still people - as projections of persona - interacting online.
If we could model that interaction as screenplays, we would be much closer to generating characters for virtual worlds.
(edit sources)
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(tag cloud)
(hood graph)
System Architecture
SQS Message Queues
Open Source: DJOP
http://code.google.com/p/djop
Java-based job orchestration SQS, S3, and optionally EC2
• Florian Leibert (AWS infrastructure, open source) • Paco Nathan (system arch, apps, integration) • Stephen Newman (network operations)
PACO NATHAN [email protected]
http://headcaselabs.com