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Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?

by sandis 15y ago

bkudria 15y ago
And Apple is building Azure- or AWS-compatible APIs for iCloud to use in the new DC?
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jemeshsu 15y ago
Me think so. If not what's the point of a hugh data center?
bengl3rt 15y ago
Probably. But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? That would suggest that their production stack will also leverage these technologies, potentially on windows (unless Mono over Linux or BSD is actually mature enough for this sort of thing, I wouldn't know)
- jasonlotito 15y ago
  > But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? No, not at all. They also have support for Java, Ruby, and PHP.
  - balakk 15y ago
    More precisely, the Azure storage API is HTTP/REST-like. Hence it practically supports any language that has a HTTP stack.
    - bengl3rt 15y ago
      I see. I mean, if they're just using the storage backend, I fully understand - they realize that solving the problem of storage provisioning and redundancy is not their core business, and that they should outsource it to somebody that's already very good at it.
    - rksprst 15y ago
      No, you can actually run Ruby on Rails, and other languages on Azure. That's a goal for them, actually. It's not only access to the storage API.
  - sriramk 15y ago
    To be clearer, Windows Azure can run any code that can run on Windows. So if you have x86/x64 code that runs in a Win2k8 OS, you're good to go. And most languages can do that, some with Cygwin. The major ones (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Erlang, etc) have phenomenal Windows support out of the box. For this next bit, see my disclaimer below. The blog post mentions windows.net. That is the domain for the Windows Azure storage services (blobs, tables, queues, etc). In specific, the headers mentioned seem consistent with a storage request made to the blob service. Disclaimer: I used to work on Windows Azure until a few weeks ago on strategic adoption among other things so I have to put this here. This is no comment on whether the OP's blog post is accurate or not, on any Apple-Microsoft relationship, etc.
- darkxanthos 15y ago
  You can just shell out to another process.
neuroelectronic 15y ago
Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert. I'm not saying that Apple can't do it, just that they're not going to be able to do it as well as Windows or Amazon.
- rbanffy 15y ago
  > Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert Actually, you should hire experts before building the datacenter
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Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?

by sandis 15y ago

Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?

bkudria 15y ago

And Apple is building Azure- or AWS-compatible APIs for iCloud to use in the new DC?

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jemeshsu 15y ago

Me think so. If not what's the point of a hugh data center?

bengl3rt 15y ago

Probably. But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? That would suggest that their production stack will also leverage these technologies, potentially on windows (unless Mono over Linux or BSD is actually mature enough for this sort of thing, I wouldn't know)

jasonlotito 15y ago
> But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? No, not at all. They also have support for Java, Ruby, and PHP.
- balakk 15y ago
  More precisely, the Azure storage API is HTTP/REST-like. Hence it practically supports any language that has a HTTP stack.
  - bengl3rt 15y ago
    I see. I mean, if they're just using the storage backend, I fully understand - they realize that solving the problem of storage provisioning and redundancy is not their core business, and that they should outsource it to somebody that's already very good at it.
  - rksprst 15y ago
    No, you can actually run Ruby on Rails, and other languages on Azure. That's a goal for them, actually. It's not only access to the storage API.
- sriramk 15y ago
  To be clearer, Windows Azure can run any code that can run on Windows. So if you have x86/x64 code that runs in a Win2k8 OS, you're good to go. And most languages can do that, some with Cygwin. The major ones (Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Erlang, etc) have phenomenal Windows support out of the box. For this next bit, see my disclaimer below. The blog post mentions windows.net. That is the domain for the Windows Azure storage services (blobs, tables, queues, etc). In specific, the headers mentioned seem consistent with a storage request made to the blob service. Disclaimer: I used to work on Windows Azure until a few weeks ago on strategic adoption among other things so I have to put this here. This is no comment on whether the OP's blog post is accurate or not, on any Apple-Microsoft relationship, etc.
darkxanthos 15y ago
You can just shell out to another process.

neuroelectronic 15y ago

Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert. I'm not saying that Apple can't do it, just that they're not going to be able to do it as well as Windows or Amazon.

rbanffy 15y ago
> Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert Actually, you should hire experts before building the datacenter
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