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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: phillip-pearson</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/phillip-pearson.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-10-24T09:57:55+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Trying out Windows on EC2</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/24/second/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-10-24T09:57:55+00:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T09:57:55+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/24/second/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2008/10/24/#200810242"&gt;Trying out Windows on EC2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Phillip Pearson provides the missing documentation.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazonaws"&gt;amazonaws&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cloud-computing"&gt;cloud-computing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ec2"&gt;ec2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/phillip-pearson"&gt;phillip-pearson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/windows"&gt;windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="amazonaws"/><category term="cloud-computing"/><category term="ec2"/><category term="phillip-pearson"/><category term="windows"/></entry><entry><title>simple-thrift-queue</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/4/thrift/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-08-04T12:27:16+00:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T12:27:16+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/4/thrift/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://github.com/myelin/simple-thrift-queue/tree/master"&gt;simple-thrift-queue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Phillip Pearson’s surprisingly concise in-memory message queue written in Python using Facebook’s Thrift library (which is similar to Protocol Buffers, but was open sourced much earlier on). Handles 4,000 requests per second on a laptop.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2008/8/4/"&gt;Queuing with Thrift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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