http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/cloud-computing-with-python-google-app-engine-and-amazon/ JOHNMWILLIS BLOG Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/cloud-computing-with-python-google-app-engine-and-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-25235 Development Tools For Cloud Computing - Two Paths Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:02:09 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/?p=895#comment-25235 [...] For most software vendors, however, the cloud-first development process has distinct disadvantages. First of all, it puts you in the data center operations business, which requires a very different DNA than software development. Next, it makes development itself difficult, because the cloud adds a level of indirection and complexity to all development tasks. Finally, you will be forced to do cloud port eventually to get to a SaaS cloud people want to deploy on, like Amazon EC2 or Google App Engine (assuming they ever exit the Python ghetto). [...] [...] For most software vendors, however, the cloud-first development process has distinct disadvantages. First of all, it puts you in the data center operations business, which requires a very different DNA than software development. Next, it makes development itself difficult, because the cloud adds a level of indirection and complexity to all development tasks. Finally, you will be forced to do cloud port eventually to get to a SaaS cloud people want to deploy on, like Amazon EC2 or Google App Engine (assuming they ever exit the Python ghetto). [...]

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