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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Google App Engine - take more than two seconds to process we are going to kill your request. All about end-user requests.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + As was Google.

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