Comments on: What the heck is cloud computing? http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/2009/03/what-the-heck-is-cloud-computing/ media architect Mon, 17 May 2010 23:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: simon http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/2009/03/what-the-heck-is-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-2447 simon Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:32:20 +0000 http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/?p=320#comment-2447 Totally !<br>As a software developer I all you need from the cloud is an SVN instance and a wiki. Sorted.<br><br> Totally !
As a software developer I all you need from the cloud is an SVN instance and a wiki. Sorted.

]]> By: Michael Janke http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/2009/03/what-the-heck-is-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-2446 Michael Janke Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:43:51 +0000 http://www.simondelliott.com/blog/?p=320#comment-2446 Simon - By that definition, the services that system managers traditionally provide to developers for in-house applications would fall in the 'cloud', as would typical  load balanced, high availability services provided to users. That's an interesting thought. We intentionally abstract users wherever possible. They don't need to know the names of the servers, the type of hosing platform or the brand of database. They just see a URL. All the load balancing, clustering etc. is invisible.In many ways, even a traditional hosting environment is abstracted from the developers. They shouldn't need to know or care about host names, database names, file systems, etc. If they do, then the design is bad. So maybe I'm already a cloud provider? :-) Simon – By that definition, the services that system managers traditionally provide to developers for in-house applications would fall in the ‘cloud’, as would typical  load balanced, high availability services provided to users. That’s an interesting thought. We intentionally abstract users wherever possible. They don’t need to know the names of the servers, the type of hosing platform or the brand of database. They just see a URL. All the load balancing, clustering etc. is invisible.In many ways, even a traditional hosting environment is abstracted from the developers. They shouldn’t need to know or care about host names, database names, file systems, etc. If they do, then the design is bad. So maybe I’m already a cloud provider? :-)

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