Sunday, July 25, 2010

Three big ideas from OSCON 2010

I attended OSCON 2010, and turned my brain to mush with all of the information available. Here are the three big ideas I took away from the conference:

Cloud computing is different from web apps Just as web apps were different from PC apps, cloud apps are different from web apps. Web apps addressed a different need in the computing world and needed different programming patterns. New languages line Perl and Python addressed the web app world better than the PC app languages of C, C++, and Pascal. With cloud computing, new patterns are needed, and new languages like Ruby (and Python) handle these patterns better than the old languages.

Infrastructure is important The server room is important, and not to be ignored. You may think that you can forget about servers and datacenters with the cloud, but you are wrong. Just because someone else manages them does not mean you don't have to be aware of them.

Expect the unexpected Of the web technologies that fit cloud computing, don't ignore PHP. There is a lot of interest in PHP; many people are using it for web apps and cloud apps.

The web has served us well. The age of web apps has survived for a decade. Now the cloud apps will have their turn.

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