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The neo-feudal structure of Internet scale platforms.

• DenisM 17y ago
  The difference is that you can move from one feudal to the next if you plan ahead. EC2 images may not be easy to move, but your deployment scripts would not be hard to replay on rackspace or any other VM host.
• mag_hammer 17y ago
  in a lot of ways developers have been 'liberated' by these cloud systems to be able to scale apps rapidly, plus we are also only in the early stages of the cloud, it will be interesting to see how the playing field levels as more players enter the market. on a related note, http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/ http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/ is a python client thats trying to create a unified library for a bunch of popular cloud hosts