Mashup: Flickr on Dynamo
Downloads entries from the Flickr public photos Atom feed every 2 hours and caches them in Amazon DynamoDB ("zaps atoms into Dynamo"). Why? So you can do zappy fast searches and likes of photos using DynamoDB, the premier fully managed NoSQL database service on the cloud today.
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