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Creating Developers for the Cloud of tomorrow - J1 '09 Report

• This session was a roundtable that looks at the convergence of application development and cloud computing, its impact on development tools and programming models, and the emergence of integrated cloud development environments.
• Panel from market leader from Sun, Gartner, and Apache foundation
• The emerging wave of cloud computing represents a major shift in information technology and application development.
  
• Developers are starting to see the rise of cloud-based development platforms as part of the broad industry shift to cloud computing.
• Gartner: "The point of Cloud Computing is not hosting but value-add service..."
  
• Some small players can now come to cloud infrastructure players and deploy their applications/services and no matter where they are, they can address a market globally - remind me the world is flat - great opportunity for small players... from now no need for large infrastructure to be built and deployed... Service providers can focus on their core activity: monetization...
• Discussions around the level of abstraction for developers that wants to make available their apps available on the cloud. Different approach exists in the market.
  
• As a general guidance, the developer doesn't need to care about the infrastructure... but from my point of view, it may depend on the use case.
  
• There is no free lunch - Cloud Computing costs and will cost - not talking about potential migration cost which could be huge.
• Big problem in Cloud: Latency ( the data is not locally stored anymore), security, mash-up of services that come from different sources that can heavily cost in terms of performance, lack of control, legal requirements that not allows usage of cloud.
• For the latency, some technologies are now being developed to address this matter (partial caching, local validation, etc...)
• According to the panel, there will not be ONE killer app that will boost the adoption of cloud computing, it will be the existence of thousands of services available on the cloud...
• An interesting point was mentioned re testing cycle of minutes when using the Cloud computing using an automatic test bench
  
• According to the panel, it is too early to a speak about real API standardization for cloud computing...
  

Labels: Cloud computing

posted by Yohan [Yonathan] Albo @ 9:50 PM

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