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 - InfiniteApple
• Windows Azure
• What Datacenter Equipment Is Apple Using? - Stephen Foskett
• Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon's scale-out storage solution
• MapReduce - Wikipedia
• Google File System - Wikipedia
• BigTable - Wikipedia
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Wikipedia
• Open Compute Project
• Scribe (Distributed Logging Service) - Wikipedia
• Apache Thrift - Wikipedia
• HipHop for PHP - Wikipedia
• OS X Lion - Apple
• Apple Dropping the 'Mac' From 'Mac OS X'? - Daring Fireball
• WWDC 1997 Steve Jobs Closing Keynote - YouTube

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