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You do have to wonder what the moves of the last few weeks mean for DotCloud. With Heroku launching support for many non-RoR languages and CloudFoundry being ad
by sriramk 15y ago
You do have to wonder what the moves of the last few weeks mean for DotCloud. With Heroku launching support for many non-RoR languages and CloudFoundry being adopted by other PaaS players, you have to wonder whether small players like DotCloud are going to get squeezed out.
- erikb 15y agoWelcome to real life!
- gfodor 15y agoAs far as I understood it, it's apples and oranges. DotCloud provides specific services, for example, running a Solr cluster, which is a higher level of abstraction really than providing support for a specific programming language.
- r00fus 15y agoI don't. Besides Heroku is supported by salesforce.com, so there's at least some longevity and synergy between the two. Also, not all PaaS players will commoditize over the same feature-set. Example in point, Heroku's Java support doesn't allow you to put a .war file up like you can do in Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk.
- thebootstrapper 15y agoNot really, Amazon web services launched Elastic Cache based on Memcache thats Dotcloud's meal. Since Amazon is mostly customer driven more the need for specific platform AWS will launch likely.
- tlrobinson 15y agoI love Heroku, but I think eventually these kinds of platforms will be commoditized by CloudFoundry and other open source implementations.
- jackowayed 15y agoI don't. I've tried a few others. Both Dotcloud and Duostack (before the acquisition). But I always ran into one or two little sticking points or things it couldn't do or things it could do but not easily. I keep coming back to Heroku, for both Ruby and now Clojure. (And now that their Node.js hosting isn't awful, I'd probably use it for that too if I did something in Node). It makes it so easy for me to get an app out, even with little wrinkles like needing some configuration variables that I don't want to check in to my codebase.