http://127.0.0.1 2010-09-14T00:00:00Z Peter van Hardenberg http://127.0.0.1/2010/09/14/cloud-services-on-heroku/ 2010-09-14T00:00:00Z 2010-09-14T00:00:00Z Peter van Hardenberg

<p>If the internet in general had a motto, it would be &ldquo;nobody has to wonder&rdquo;. If the cloud had one, it would be &ldquo;nobody has to wait&rdquo;. Traditional web development models are naturally conservative. Learning to install and adminster new software packages is intimidating, and hosting them requires a certain amount of experience that many users don&rsquo;t have. By providing a high-quality monitored, backed-up, performant, on-demand version of a service, you can reduce a developer&rsquo;s barrier to entry with new technology to nothing more than &ldquo;heroku addons:add foo&rdquo;.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve built just such a service on Heroku, and in this series of blog posts, I&rsquo;m going to talk about the architecture, the features, and the challenges of building and operating your very own cloud service platform&hellip;</p>

<p>If the internet in general had a motto, it would be &ldquo;nobody has to wonder&rdquo;. If the cloud had one, it would be &ldquo;nobody has to wait&rdquo;. Traditional web development models are naturally conservative. Learning to install and adminster new software packages is intimidating, and hosting them requires a certain amount of experience that many users don&rsquo;t have. By providing a high-quality monitored, backed-up, performant, on-demand version of a service, you can reduce a developer&rsquo;s barrier to entry with new technology to nothing more than &ldquo;heroku addons:add foo&rdquo;.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve built just such a service on Heroku, and in this series of blog posts, I&rsquo;m going to talk about the architecture, the features, and the challenges of building and operating your very own cloud service platform.</p> <p>Let&rsquo;s begin by talking about what a cloud service is.</p>