Remember when we use to worry about servers & scaling?

April 13th, 2008

I'm so ridiculously excited about Google App Engine.

In the next year or so, I hope we see more and more hosting companies taking on this model.

Removing the need to worry about servers and scaling will be great for everyone. If you're a hosting company, I strongly recommend you look into how you could do this. Most developers would pay over the odds for the pain of servers & scaling to be taken away.

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5 Responses to “Remember when we use to worry about servers & scaling?”

  1. versicherung Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 06:39 PM

    Do you think that old fashion hositng will survive?

  2. Dick Davies Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 08:57 AM

    Maybe if you like Django a lot.

    EC2 gives a much more familiar model to most app developers, and that hasn't taken the world by storm yet (although layered management services a la http://heroku.com may yet change that).

  3. Stephen Bartholomew Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 10:22 AM

    @Dick: I'm not a fan of Django at all - but as I understand it, the platform is language independent and they have plans to roll out the service for Ruby and others soon.

    Besides that, my main point is that the concept - hosting and scaling without the pain & upfront expense - is a great idea. EC2 does solve some issues, but you still have to know your hosting requirements beforehand and/or deal with scaling yourself.

  4. Chloe Baby Says:
    April 27th, 2008 at 02:55 AM

    I'm not excited about building applications to run on googles infrastructure. It make me think were just putting more and more power into the hands of google.

  5. Sebastian Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 01:56 PM

    Yeah, but what with Rails on Google App Engine?

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