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: July 2012

AppFog Goes GA – Gets Some Love

The response to the announcement of AppFog’s launch into general availability and our breakthrough, game-changing pricing plan for AppFog has been tremendous. Already, thousands of developers have signed up and deployed thousands of new apps in the last 4 days. Thank you all so much! We have worked hard to produce the simplest, most powerful,
July 31, 2012 3 Comments Read More

How I Won the OpenStack Birthday Contest

This is a re-post of a post by Joe Bauser (aka Coder Joe) on his personal blog, about his winning entry in our OpenStack Birthday Contest, co-sponsored by AppFog and Rackspace. The post is a real gem. It provides a lucid explanation of his coding process and nicely re-traces some of his footsteps. This guy
July 30, 2012 0 Comments Read More

DNS Outage Report

On July 22nd, at approximately 11:45 PM PST, we were alerted to DNS resolution problems in our infrastructure. We checked with our DNS provider, Zerigo, and they were indeed undergoing a targeted and sustained distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). At approximately 1:15 AM PST, DNS issues seemed to be resolving. Unfortunately, this turned out
July 27, 2012 3 Comments Read More

If PaaS is expensive and slow, why not use a VPS?

Traditional PaaS punishes success As many people have noted, traditional PaaS is cheap to start, and expensive to scale. Starting price for good PaaS: $0/month Starting price for good VPS: $200/month Scaled up PaaS: $2,000+/month Scaled up VPS: $300/month Historically, PaaS has been a great way to start an app, but expensive and usually not
July 26, 2012 20 Comments Read More

Other amazing entries from the OpenStack contest

A few days ago, we announced the winners of the contest that we celebrated in conjunction with OpenStack’s second birthday. Once again, congratulations to Joe Bauser and Anthony Castle on their deserved victories! But like we said the other day, we were absolutely astonished by the outpouring of creativity that came our way during the
July 25, 2012 0 Comments Read More

Congratulations to Joe Bauser on winning the OpenStack obfuscated code competition!

First place: Joe Bauser (code) Runner-up: Anthony Castle (code) As many of you know, we held a contest along with our friends at Rackspace last week for the second birthday of OpenStack. The goal: to give away a MacBook Pro 15” with retina display to the person who can deploy an app on AppFog that does nothing
July 23, 2012 13 Comments Read More

PHP’s brighter future? On the “PHP the Right Way” project

I want to talk a little about a very promising project called “PHP: The Right Away.” But first, I’d like to give a brief rundown of why the project is of such interest to me. First brushes with PHP A few months back, I decided that I was going to learn PHP. Why? In all
July 17, 2012 2 Comments Read More

OpenStack is turning two, and we’re celebrating by giving stuff away

Here at AppFog, we love birthdays. Whenever one of our employees has a birthday, we celebrate with cupcakes and the requisite slightly-off-key singing. In fact, we eat cupcakes even if the birthday boy/girl doesn’t happen to come in that day. That’s how much we care. The Contest We love birthdays so much that we decided
July 17, 2012 7 Comments Read More

Daniel Clifford on Optimizing JavaScript for the V8 Engine

For those of you like myself that didn’t have the good fortune of going to Google I/O, I hope you caught this video, “Breaking the JavaScript Speed Barrier:” As an aspiring developer, this was far and away the most intriguing and helpful video from the conference. This talk, delivered by Google’s Daniel Clifford, provides a
July 9, 2012 5 Comments Read More

Putting the MOVE framework in proper perspective

In a recent post, on data models and persistence, I made what I now realized to be a pretty fundamental mistake: I talked about the use of data models in web development, but I restricted my discussion to MVC-style frameworks alone and should have said more about alternative design patterns. I restricted my discussion in
July 5, 2012 3 Comments Read More

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