Cloud: commodity or proprietary? « Free Search
"If we develop standard, non-proprietary cloud APIs with open-source implementations, then cloud providers can deploy these and compete on price, availability, performance, etc., giving developers usable alternatives" -- this is what Project Raincloud sho
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al3x.net: Mulling On Google App Engine
Really good write up on App Engine -- push to Django and Python in general, can run REST services on Google and run main website elsewhere...
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ongoing · Sharecropper Alert
Tim explains how buying into Google App Engine means you're stuck. Hmm, can we clone the API?
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Google App Engine and Open Source: What's in it for us? | OStatic
"The competing models and incompatible APIs remind me strongly of the early days of personal computing" -- raincloud will be the open source layer here
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Reflections on Cloud Computing
The second comment again focusing on Amazon S3 / EC2 as examples just underscores the need for competition...
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What Does Hadoop Mean to You? | OStatic
Lots of people clueing in to what MapReduce / Hadoop can enable.
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