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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Google App Engine - take more than two seconds to process we are going to kill your request. Must be willing to work the way Google expects. Server and client in Java.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. + Our view then (kind of obvious now) was that software would be consumed the way that consumer Internet sites were back then.

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