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Interview: Geir Magnusson on Cloud Computing

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Geir Magnusson on Cloud Computing

Geir Magnusson, VP of Engineering at 10Gen, sat for this interview with Ryan Slobojan at QCon London, 2009.

The interview begins with a question about the definition of cloud computing and ends with a question about OSGI libraries. In between the questions range from implications of the Cloud on application development, vendor lock-in, the effect of open source on Java, and the future of Apache Harmony.

Geir shares his Cloud expertise and viewpoint in this interview: Geir Magnusson on Cloud Computing

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Google's AppEngine is pretty nice. by Richard L. Burton III Posted

Google's AppEngine is pretty nice. by Richard L. Burton III

I believe AppEngine did a pretty awesome job. They even went as far as to go with a Java standard JDO or JPA to abstract their data store layer. I don't feel it's a *high* risk for vendor locking, but it would require some thought in abstracting certain parts of your code base in case you intend to move away from them.

Good video.

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