Version 1 of How does Tcl work in the cloud?

Updated 2010-03-12 16:34:58 by dkf

The titular question is ill-posed, but understandable. [Explain much more.]

DKF has made many pertinent observations based on his own cloud work:

  • "... it's really about rethinking applications for the internet and not just applications, but also business processes"
  • "... t's difficult to get right but the big drivers are the fact that it's becoming untenable to build machine rooms for everyone; that's just horribly inefficient"
  • "... the location of things matters, but it did before anyway even if people didn't know it"

DKF: Also note that there is no "compiler for the cloud"; it's about how to put pieces of applications on servers on the internet, with added virtualization and fine-grained accounting; you use standard compilers.