Here's a tantalizing prospect on the "advent of private PaaS" in a blog post by RightScale, on Cloud Foundry's potential. I am watching Cloud Foundry very closely, if it matures well (a big 'if') then I'm definitely jumping the GAE ship. The possibilities of choosing a PaaS provider *and* a IaaS provider are simply too attractive. Imagine running your GAE app on Amazon's IaaS, running on the exact-same GAE PaaS software.
Good times ahead! http://blog.rightscale.com/2011/04/12/launch-vmwares-cloudfoundry-paas-using-rightscale/ Until now the notion of PaaS has lumped together the author of the PaaS software and its operator. For example, Heroku developed its PaaS software and also offers it as a service. If you want to run your application on Heroku your only choice is to sign-up to their service and have them run your app. Google AppEngine has the same properties. All this is very nice and has many benefits, but it doesn’t fit all use-cases by a long shot. What if you need to run your app in Brazil but Heroku and your PaaS service doesn’t operate there? Or if you need to run your app within the corporate firewall? Or if you want to add some custom hooks to the PaaS software so you can punch out to custom services that are co-located with your app? All these options become a reality with Cloud Foundry because the PaaS software is developed as an open-source project. You can customize it and you can run it where you want to and how you want. Of course you can also go to a hosted Cloud Foundry service whenever you don’t want to be bothered running servers. This could be a public Cloud Foundry service that is in effect competing with Heroku, AppEngine and others, but it could also be a private service offered by IT or your friendly devops team mate. This opens the possibilities for departmental PaaS services that may have a relatively small scale and can be tailored for the specific needs of their users. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <j...@infohazard.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Brandon Wirtz <drak...@digerat.com> > wrote: > > To be fair... It's more like the partner in the restaurant saying, you > have > > to use Canola oil, instead of Peanut Oil because we think there is less > > risk. So your fries won't taste as good, we're fronting the money, so > you > > do it our way. > > To draw out that analogy a little farther, we'd have to add the fact > that you're also a MD-PhD who spent the last 10 years researching > heart disease, and the partner is someone who has read a few articles > on the Huffington Post. > > :-) > > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
