Comments on: Why Modern Applications Demand Modern Tools

By: Jim Pasquale

Jim Pasquale — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:48:51 +0000

What an excellent piece on the fact that “Shifts Happen”. The formalization of computing in the cloud from the long ago days of ASP’s to today’s SaaS over PaaS and through well thought out robust IaaS offers is a new decade of exciting opportunities. Building on a new approaches and making the web be more alive with content in context and more relevant. The LiveWeb and it’s here today! If you’re willing to stand on the edge of the future the rest of those who will follow seems simple.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:49:27 +0000

Sounds and looks pretty interesting, but …
Trying to repeat Erlang success w/o support of a big corporation (like Ericsson) or open source community can be extremely hard for small start up.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:42:49 +0000

In my opinion, your situation means you can’t afford to have a single point of failure, whether in the cloud or your data center. The way you organize your operations is more fundamental from that perspective than the specific technology stack you use. Netflix’s post-mortem on how they avoided any significant issues from the AWS outage is probably the best read to start with.

By: Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:35:58 +0000

Given what happened with AWS recently and the fact that Foursquare (and not Netflix) went down in a big way, what do you think that says about pushing things to the cloud.

I have a couple of SaaS apps, and we are constantly debating the feasibility of using the cloud for data storage. Our apps are for the healthcare industry, so any loss of info is catastrophic to our business.

Is Scala something we should be looking at?