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Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

Maldini3105 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:26 -0000

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

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

Maldini3105 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:20 -0000

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

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

jamesurquhart — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:06:50 -0000

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! ;-)

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

Alain Yap, Morph Labs — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:12:46 -0000

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

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

jamesurquhart — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:21:53 -0000

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/ongoin...

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

jamesurquhart — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:18:57 -0000

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.

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

Ben Reid — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:02:47 -0000

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.

Re: The PaaS Spectrum: Choosing Your Coding Cloud

Adamgilly — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:41:24 -0000

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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