Lee: thanks for the pointer to what looks like an excellent report. Scala might be great for cloud computing and it would be interesting to extend Lift in that direction. There is a ton of closed and open source work going on now on scalable storage and it would be interesting to see whether a general layer could be wrapped around one or more of them at the lift level. As for deployment, something like Chris Richardson's CloudTools (done with Grails and Maven for Amazon's platform) generalized to multiple cloud platforms might be interesting. App management and monitoring needs a different approach in the cloud and Chris and others are starting to get in to that. Dunno if that would make sense as part of lift but it might be a good idea (for lift or Scala?) to provide support for it. There might be multiple levels: JMX was added to Java in order to support Java application monitoring software. ---Paul O
On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:46 AM PST, mighdoll wrote: > > Thinking about Lift after 1.0, I was thinking one possible direction > would be to specialize in cloud computing... > > Reading the following paper on the challenges of cloud computing gave > me a few quick ideas > http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.pdf > : > > * Scaling quickly: perhaps lift could build (or integrate with) a > layer to detect load and deploy more/fewer instances semiautomatically > * Scalable storage: what would a storage api look like that's intended > to map to scalable storage (column stores, key/value stores, > partitioned stores)? > * Deployment: perhaps lift should release deployment scripts, or even > EC2 VM instances? > > Food for thought. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
