http://dynz.net/jacob/2007/08/16/coding-style/ Jacob Thomas's personal weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://dynz.net/jacob/2007/08/16/coding-style/#comment-225 php devel Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:30:14 +0000 http://dynz.net/jacob/2007/08/16/coding-style/#comment-225 Regrettably, for many cloud computing platforms the car example you give doesn’t compute. You may notice a vehicle as a means to an end, and all of you value is getting there, then you need an application platform like Google’s AppEngine. Here you simply add an practical application, and the rest is managed. If however you run ec2, you’re no longer concerning about hardware, but still about instances and virtual servers. All of them run OS’s that need to be maintained; it’s like taking taxi’s but still having to know everything about the taxi’s engines. I predict that later on we’ll move towards AppEngine like versions or ‘managed clouds’. Regrettably, for many cloud computing platforms the car example you give doesn’t compute. You may notice a vehicle as a means to an end, and all of you value is getting there, then you need an application platform like Google’s AppEngine. Here you simply add an practical application, and the rest is managed. If however you run ec2, you’re no longer concerning about hardware, but still about instances and virtual servers. All of them run OS’s that need to be maintained; it’s like taking taxi’s but still having to know everything about the taxi’s engines. I predict that later on we’ll move towards AppEngine like versions or ‘managed clouds’.

]]>