Recently a post from @Gigabarb popped up on the ole’ Twitter that started a micro-storm of twitter responses. Ok tech users. Who out there is using a PaaS? For realz. Serious question. — Barb Darrow (@gigabarb) November 21, 2013 This got me thinking about a number of things and I started to write her an... Continue reading →

Today I participated in the OpenShift Community Day here in Portland at the Doubletree Hotel. One of the things I wanted to research was the possibility of putting together a OpenShift Origin Cartridge for Riak. As with most PaaS Systems this isn’t the most straight forward process. The reason is simple, OpenShift and CloudFoundry have... Continue reading →

Today kicked off with a monster Reggie Biscuit from Pine State Biscuits. If you live in Portland or are visiting just for the conference and like soul food of the tastiest nature, check it out. My first day ended up not as planned. Instead of attending sessions I ended up meeting a number of people... Continue reading →

Thanks to Larry Carvalho and Krishnan Subramanian for lining me up to speak at the kick off bootcamp keynote and for a PaaS Session at the Cloud Expo Boot Camp. I had a great time and was able to cover some great material with the audience. It was great to hear a number of companies... Continue reading →

I’ve been diligent and started a search of Platform as a Service Providers, so far my list includes: EngineYard Heroku AWS Beanstalk Windows Azure AppFog Tier3 CloudFoundry OpenShift IBM PaaS Google App Engine CloudBees Who else is there? Help me out in creating a list of every possible offering we can find! Cheers! Continue reading →