Can You See the Monkeys?

Traffic directed to amazon from Oprah.com went through the roof (15000%) and the aggregate of all visits to amazon were bumped up 6%, an enormous spike in a mature site. Given these numbers, her Kindle endorsement is a home run for the …

That 304 response prevented the visitor’s browser from downloading the same data again (thus saving you money) but there’s another problem – amazon S3 also charges you for every GET request so each time a browser asks amazon if images …