CommodityComputing

Attendees

• BrandonCsSanders
• James Duncan
• Lewis Hoffman

Synopsis

Notes

• Computing as a commodity that is similar to electricity or gas
• Broader than grid
• Squeak … computing environment and a set of primitives
• Javascript … wrap an api around those primitives
• Any api can be wrapped around it
• Applications can move around (migrations)
• Primitives
  • construction news Dubai construction companies Go and fetch this web page
  • Send an email
  • High level so that you can get mobility
• Operations being secret sauce
  • Ability to scale things and deploy things … sell computing space … complete computing environment
• Build an app and deploy it … don't know whether it is one computer or a million … doesn't matter
• Building an app server in javascript so that apps can be picked up an moved
• I want apps on my installation be able to move to this other installation
• Releasing as open source