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The Wisdom of Clouds: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

  • Adamgilly · 1 year ago
    Folks at Google called it "the cloud." And one challenge of programming at Google was to leverage that cloud—to push it to do things that would overwhelm lesser machines.
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  • jamesurquhart · 1 year ago
    Which is great, and certainly a big effort saver for those looking to scale applications across tens or hundreds of systems. Not portable, though.

    Tim Bray's site has an interesting discussion about this right now: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/...
  • Ben Reid · 1 year ago
    Just wondering if you've caught up with what Heroku are doing in the Ruby on Rails space? Seriously impressive stuff which delivers not only browser-based IDE for Rails apps, but full PaaS deployment based on EC2 (I think they're using PostGres in the data tier), but also allows you to download your code and work locally if you want to and then re-sync your code back up using Git.

    Definitely a contender given the momentum behind Rails currently.
  • jamesurquhart · 1 year ago
    Heroku is actually very cool. It falls squarely in the category of "Productivity/Ease of Operation", but there are a few Ruby PaaS providers out there, so perhaps not as "far right" as some.
  • Alain Yap, Morph Labs · 1 year ago
    Isn't PaaS to the Cloud just like butter/jelly to bread? It really does take a lot of the complexity of configuring so many things compared to just doing everything by your own on the 'cloud'.

    Here's to more PaaS innovations (more time for programming and innovation work)!

    Best.
    Alain
  • jamesurquhart · 1 year ago
    Absolutely! And here's to PaaS vendors working together to allow that investment in programming and innovation to be portable to more than one vendor! ;-)
  • Maldini3105 · 5 months ago
    Good comments: I'm looking at what should be stated as best guidelines for coding to the cloud. For example (irrespective of language) how do you code for:

    - horizontal V's vertical scalability
    - loose coupling
    - data/information versus functional services
    - static versus dynamic IP addresses

    etc

    Is there any thinking on best practices on soem coding and designgenerics for public v's privae cloud ..etc

    Thanks for any comments and/or poiners

    Mal
  • Maldini3105 · 5 months ago
    Good comments: I'm looking at what should be stated as best guidelines for coding to the cloud. For example (irrespective of language) how do you code for:

    - horizontal V's vertical scalability
    - loose coupling
    - data/information versus functional services
    - static versus dynamic IP addresses

    etc

    Is there any thinking on best practices on soem coding and designgenerics for public v's privae cloud ..etc

    Thanks for any comments and/or poiners

    Mal