Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I've been using S3 a lot in the last couple of months, and with the Amazon SDK for Ruby it really is dead simple to work with (as well as all of the other AWS services the SDK supports currently). So simple in fact, that you could quite easily delete all of your objects with very little work indeed. I did some benchmarks and found that (with batch operations) it took around 3 minutes to delete…