Cloud

In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that: Use declarative formats for setup automation, to minimize time and cost for new developers joining the project; Have a clean contract with the underlying operating system, offering maximum portability between execution environments; Are suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms, obviating the need for servers and systems administration; Minimize divergence between development and production, enabling continuous deployment for maximum agility; And can scale up without significant changes to tooling, architecture, or development practices. The twelve-factor methodology can be applied to apps written in any programming language, and which use any combination of backing services (database, queue, memory cache, etc). ...

What if your cloud instances could be updated with the same certainty and precision as your mobile phone – with carrier grade assurance that an update applies perfectly or is not applied at all? What if your apps could be isolated from one another completely, so there’s no possibility that installing one app could break another, and stronger assurance that a compromise of one app won’t compromise the data from another? When we set out to build the Ubuntu Phone we took on the challenge of raising the bar for reliability and security in the mobile market. And today that same technology is coming to the cloud, in the form of a new ”snappy” image called Ubuntu Core ...

I’ve had too many personal experiences get messed up just because companies change things on the cloud. I’ve come to a depressed state of feeling that I own nothing on the cloud and have no ability to keep things working the way they do. Features change and get dropped, things you depend on disappear, etc. And no company will ever take responsibility. It’s rare to ever get told what really happened. ...

Tu jefe lo quiere para ayer, pero más vale que cumpla con los standards de mañana. Los clientes quieren todas las características que se puedan imaginar, pero no te atrevas a confundirlos dándoles todos los botones que desee. Tus compañeros programadores quieren que documentes tu código, pero ellos simplemente responden ”tl;dr” (Too Long; didn’t read) a cualquier cosa que escribes. Así como la tecnología evoluciona, también lo hacen los dilemas que enfrentan los desarrolladores. Cada elección, desde la plataforma hasta el almacenamiento de datos, incluyendo a cuánto control darle a los usuarios, está cargada de preguntas. Y gracias a la nube, el crecimiento de la tecnología móvil y la acelerada vanguardia, pareciera como si el mundo de la programación enfrentara una nueva elección – y dilema – a un ritmo creciente. ...