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Totally agree on the PaaS squeeze. It's a very tough problem space and consolidation is already on the horizon. These days everyone wants a streamlined, Herok
by gabrtv 15y ago
Totally agree on the PaaS squeeze. It's a very tough problem space and consolidation is already on the horizon.
These days everyone wants a streamlined, Heroku-style workflow. And yet it's interesting that despite the benefits of PaaS, many engineers just aren't willing to give up control of underlying infrastructure.
IaaS orchestration offers a different approach that provides many of the benefits of PaaS (auto-scaling, streamlined deployment workflow, etc) using raw IaaS building blocks. IaaS orchestration is also a challenging problem, but the space is less crowded.
Disclaimer: I'm the CTO of OpDemand and IaaS orchestration is what we do.
- LinXitoW 15y agoThe reason we're not running on *aaS isn't actually becuase we don't want to - we'd love to. Yet we keep having to roll our own mini cloud on root servers because our clients fear for data security (and rightly so) when putting stuff on servers of US-based companies because of the Patriot Act.