Very nice "morning report"! It gives a framework that can be developed into a large paper explaining what each term means; the pros/cons of the available options (at this point in time); motivations for design choices; future technologies to become aware of; etc; etc.
Then it can become an O'Reilly book.....! Don On May 9, 2014, at 9:33, duncan macneil <beatgroo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 8 May 2014 22:29:31 UTC+10, Willoughby wrote: > Is Azure in your shoot-out? I'd be interested in hearing those results... > > > Hey, woah, I'm the cloud shootout guy now? ;-) Cool! > > I have had a small-to-serious look at Azure, Google Compute, Amazon, > Rackspace, Heroku, etc. There are more serious cloud comparison efforts than > mine, for sure! > > In the end, my prediction is that cloud computing, storage, CDN etc will > become such a hyper-commodity that your future app-hosting dash will instead > be via a cloud aggregator. > > That future cloud aggregator would report something like: > > "Good morning, Dave. Your application 'MyCoolApp' is healthy. It is currently > running across 4 continents and 17 cloud providers. CDN has been weighted to > 3 providers based on our 'Gamma' speed/price ratio, last updated on Tuesday. > One provider was dropped due to a terms-of-service change. Your current > redundancy profile allows you to drop 1 continent or up to 5 providers at any > time without business interruption. Your application load balancers route to > compute-intensive servers in the UK between 2:30 and 4:30pm weekdays GMT due > to a weekday spike detected for which your compute pricing was previously not > optimal. Your data is hosted on a shared-secrets algorithm model. At least 6 > providers would need to collaborate in order to decrypt the data they host > for you. Your monthly fees total is currently 16.2 Cayman Bitcoins, for which > you have earned 0.0000001 Frequent SpaceMiles points. Thank you." > > > > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
