Service Level Automation in the Datacenter: Google App Engine...
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- Tswicegood on 2008-04-15 - Tags no_tag
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rankly, I think an Amazon portability story would be much more generally interesting to enterprise IT. But, that's just me.
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At *this* moment in time, it would be difficult to move apps off of AppEngine. Doing that in EC2 is trivial.
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If you have a substantial amount of data, you can't just write code to dump it because they will only let any request run for a short period before they terminate it.
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This last point is really very serious. I've been warning for some time that the first phase of Web 2.0 is the acquisition of critical mass via network effects, but that once companies achieve that critical mass, they will be tempted to consolidate their position, leading ultimately to a replay of the personal computer industry's sad decline from an open, energetic marketplace to a controlled economy.
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