On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:17 PM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Lakmal, I think I understand... > > It may make sense to write your own scaling code for small, simple > applications. However, the scaling code will quickly become complex for > large and complex applications. For complex applications It will be better > to build on top of the stratos framework than write your custom scaling > code from scratch. > > Exactly :) > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> Please see my comments inline, >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:21 AM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In the Stratos Developer Guide [1], I've captured that Stratos is a >>> 'framework' for building a PaaS. I would like to flesh out that statement >>> a little more, so I have some questions: >>> >>> Who could benefit from adopting Stratos? How do they benefit? For >>> example: >>> >>> Could a tiny startup company benefit from using Stratos to manage >>> scaling of a single cloud based application? >>> >> >> Its depends. If the cloud application need more scalability, and when it >> come to scale, their devOps team need to do lot of work. Stratos mainly >> help devOps to monitor and manage the infrastructure and resources need for >> scaling. If the cloud app does not require this all, no need to adopt to >> Stratos. >> >> >>> >>> Or, is Stratos only really of interest to large organisations that are >>> building full featured PaaS applications (e.g. IT providers)? >>> >> >> Yes, if the large organizations want to deploy complex cloud application >> (may be polyglot) and require on demanding scaling, then Stratos is natural >> fit. And if cloud app need SLA and maintain several nines availability, >> Stratos will good fit. >> >> >>> >>> I'm trying to get a feel for when Stratos becomes a viable solution for >>> a company to manage their apps. How does a company make the decision that >>> Stratos is the right framework for them? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> [1] >>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GiEsqVbqhp0rBqf6LhpNqB57TVxIApNg9o1Sk0zI9Oo >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Lakmal Warusawithana >> Software Architect; WSO2 Inc. >> Mobile : +94714289692 >> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/ >> >> > > > -- > Check out my professional profile and connect with me on LinkedIn. > http://lnkd.in/cw5k69 > -- Lakmal Warusawithana Software Architect; WSO2 Inc. Mobile : +94714289692 Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
