PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Heroku Adds Scala And Cumulogic Goes OpenStack
Gone are the days when I have to emphasize the importance of PaaS as the future of cloud services and we are now seeing a complete transformation of the PaaS space with all the PaaS vendors focussing on multi-language and multi-cloud trend. In fact, the PaaS layer is somewhat commoditized with very little differentiation and [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: AppFog Adds Ruby And Node.js Support
Appfog (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS player previously known as PHPFog, today announced support for Ruby and Node.js on their platform. This is nothing new or surprising and I can even say that this completes the process of removing any differentiation in terms of language support among the PaaS providers (yeah, I know that there [...]
Parallelism On The Cloud And Polygot Programmers
I am very passionate about the idea of giving developers the control over parallelism without them having to deal with the underlying execution semantics of their code. The programming languages and the constructs, today, are designed to provide abstraction, but they are not designed to estimate the computational complexity and dependencies. The frameworks such as [...]
