Version 3 of How does Tcl work in the cloud?

Updated 2010-03-12 16:47:19 by FabricioRocha

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.

Fabricio Rocha - 12 Mar 2010 - I have been thinking about this subject these days. My knowledge about cloud computing is minimal, and so I think of it as something that can be done in multiple ways. What exactly is cloud computing? At first, it looks like having very lightweight applications in a desktop, netbook or mobile device (a basic OS and a browser) able to connect to application servers which do the heavy computing. So it looks like Tcl/Tk is very adequate to the task at a server side, thanks to its channels, http support, etc. At the client side I see a problem with the apparent abandon of the Tcl plugin. Or maybe we need something new, based in HTML 5...