:-) In a way: it is the knowledge from running an XaaS company distilled into code, although lots of people worked on the code over the years. Code libraries = knowledge-as-a-service.
If anyone is thinking of building something as a service, I hope you'll grab me at the design summit and let me show you the head-start PlatformLayer gives you; in return I'll get to see more of the areas where it is lacking! Justin On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Mark Collier <mark.coll...@rackspace.com> wrote: > Justin-as-a-Service? > > > Justin Santa Barbara <jus...@fathomdb.com> wrote: > > > FathomDB has just open-sourced PlatformLayer, which makes it easy to > build anything as a service. It takes all the know-how and a lot of > the code from running FathomDB's MySQL-as-a-service offering. > > You can now build your: > > Memcached-as-a-service (like AWS ElastiCache) > MySQL-as-a-service (like AWS RDS) > Nginx-as-a-service (like AWS Elastic Load Balancing) > DNS-as-a-service (like AWS Route 53) > etc > > This is just a starting point, but I'm hoping to present this more at > the Design Summit - I'm thinking I'll try live-coding a new service in > 15 minutes (anyone have any requests? RabbitMQ-as-a-service?) > > Read more: http://blog.justinsb.com/blog/2012/04/06/introducing-platformlayer/ > > Discussion on hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3809221 > > Please contact me if you're interested in using it or helping out! > > Thanks, > Justin > > --- > > Justin Santa Barbara > Founder, FathomDB > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
