Some people love their automobiles. They can tell you all all about their technical specifications. They buy upgrades and after market parts. Its a lifestyle and a hobby. I am not one of those people. For me an automobile is purely a means to an end. I am here, I want to be there. Having lived the last year without a car (my truck is in storage and will be for sale soon), I can say I don’t much care whether I get there in my car, or a taxi, or a zip car. This is the benefit of modern urban living, I suppose.
So, just as I look at an automobile as a means to an end, I look at servers as a means to an end. I guess that makes me a Software Guy. I know there are Hardware Guys out there. They’re doing great things and I’m thankful for them. But, for the most part, I am interested in what computers can do for us, not how they do it.
I don’t think I’m alone in my attitude. That’s why I think that computing as a commodity a strong future. We can leave things like data center efficiency to someone else and focus on the things that are really important to us. Oh, if you’re at facebook scale, you’re probably going to have to do serious cross stack optimization. And if you are at the hobby end, current cloud offerings may be pricy.
But, consider this. What can you buy with $100,000 per year? One programmer or 120 ec2 instances. (more with reserved instance pricing.)
At a certain scale, cloud computing makes alot of sense. $100,000 is just a number. Oh, I know, you have this guy in Belarus and he works for less. But, the fundamental equation is the same. Programming is expensive and computing power is a commodity. Did I mention I’m a software guy?
Are you interested in how to use PHP in the cloud? Clay Loveless recognized the advantages of cloud computing early, jumping on ec2 as one of the early adaptors. He’s recently written a great Introduction to AWS for PHP Programmers. I’d encourage you to check it out.
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Unfortunately, for most cloud computing platforms the car analogy you give doesn’t work out.
If you see a car as a means to an end, and all you care about is getting there, then you need an application platform like Google’s AppEngine. Here you just add an app, and the rest is taken care of.
If on the other hand you run ec2, you’re no longer worrying about hardware, but still about instances and virtual servers. All of them run OS’s that need to be maintained; it’s like taking taxi’s but still having to know everything about the taxi’s engines.
I predict that in the future we’ll move towards AppEngine like models or ‘managed clouds’.
I don’t get it. A programmer or 120 EC2 instances? What if I wanted a house?!
First half of your blog I was completely lost much like H up top ^. Then I read your last paragraph and it all seems to make sense. Cheers for the link – I will definitely check it out
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the link you’d provided up there, is very interesting. its incredible to see how a VERY high traffic website scales.
but regarding your post, its looks incomplete and inconsistent. definitely i dont agree with your comparison like “1 programmer or 120+ EC2 instances” because you know if you cant drive the car, it doesn’t make any sense to owe 120+ in your garage. ultimately you need someone who will drive them for you
but good blog post – specially the link worth a visit
Thanks, good article.
If you don’t know how your server runs surely its hard to write efficient code for it?
We have had great results on our efforts in developing soultions of tech compaines on PHP on the cloud space. EC2 is great! Some time it can be a bit of a pain
We have had great results on our efforts in developing solutions of tech compaines on PHP on the cloud space. EC2 is great! Some time it can be a bit of a pain
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I’ve been looking to get my head in the clouds for a while now – but I think you have to strike a balance between massive distribution, and good old-fashioned server-load-balancing for certain tasks, just because it is more straightforward and a faster solution
Some time it can be a bit of a pain
Of course cloud computing is very important.But according to my school of thought there should be balance between programmer and server.
Thanks for the link to AWS. Very interesting…
It seems like the idea you are dancing around is specialization and efficiency. You do not want to be a jack-of-all-trades and instead be a master of one trade (the software guy trade).
For example, you don’t care very much about cars but you want to get places at times so you prefer to use the pre-developed transportation class that is maintained by someone else such as a taxi or a Zip car. You also don’t care very much about hardware so you opt for a tool built for a purpose by someone else. Aristotle had something to say about specialization as did Henry Ford.
Now we have Amazon offering Web Services i.e., a massive on-line reseller offering pieces of its huge computer system. What a great idea to offer cpu resources by the hour and data storage by the gig.
Thanks for the article and especially the information on AWS.
Specialization is a great way to improve efficiency. What I do at Zook Law is help software developers with licensing, IP and negotiation issues. I take care of the legal stuff so software guys can focus on their software stuff.
While this is not a perfect analogy I think the idea/thought is sound.
^_^, yes, you are right.
Im a PHP guy – and I can say without a doubt that having your own servers with full control just makes life easier. Not cheaper – but easier.
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There should be balance between programmer and server.
php in the cloud is blowing my mind! thanks for the article.
Your comparison is similar to … a hen and an egg… You ask which is important… An egg or a hen… I say a hen… cuz an egg can deliver a cock or not even germinate!
The most valuable thing is the human resource… A programmer is a skilled human resource that can even command thousands of EC2… What’s an EC2… a programmer can command even hundred million dollars worth of satellites, space ships, world economy… what not!
Cloud-based development involves in some sense, the outsourcing, of various parts of the application out of the server and into the cloud. So instead of storing images, videos and other objects in the file system, they are stored on the cloud. Instead of using a local database, a cloud-based database is used instead. Batch-processing and other functionalities are also performed on the cloud. In other words, developers using the cloud will move most or all of the components of a web application into the cloud. The most significant benefit of course is that the cloud´s capacity is theoretically limitless as compared to that of some local servers, saving the need to frantically add hardware or worry at all if traffic explodes.
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