Gandi Cloud is a cloud hosting service, similar to Amazon’s EC2. Since you get full access to a Linux installation, deployment is similar to using a dedicated server. They have prepackaged solutions for various frameworks but not for Play. Fortunately deploying Play in general is pretty straight-forward. Note that, just like EC2, it’s not free …
A few days ago I’ve been invited to a launch party for a web product in Paris. While the product was nice and polished, it seems like the developers didn’t understand anything about scalability. They didn’t even understand my question when I asked them if the product could scale. It’s probably not a big deal …
I’ve been playing with Google App Engine recently. It’s actually pretty cool, to the point that I’m almost ashamed to have ignored it when it was released. I kind of felt like it would be too restrictive with just Python, just their own database and so on. But so far, I like it: It’s only …
