Report from Google Scalabilty Conf.: "SOA done right...Every Amazon Web page calls at least 150 services."

Hints at some interesting stuff but doesn't say too much outright. If Amazon claims databases are the way of the past, I'm not sure what the way of the future is. Hashtables stored in flash memory?

I hope those calls are heavily cached... 150 service calls per page doesn't sound too scalable.

About time basic SQL databases are revealed to be the total scalability fraud they really are.