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Re:AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Di... by EwanToo on Thursday July 26, 2012 @09:38AM (#4295880)
AppFog handle things like software updates, scaling beyond one machine, DDoS attacks, all those kind of things.

You ask them to deploy a (for example) MongoDB service, they do it, and they are responsible for the operation of it.

The idea is to reduce the amount of day to day (or more likely month to month) work involved in doing things like security patches, upgrading infrastructure, etc, that suck up a lot of time, especially for people who don't have experience in building load balancers and so on.

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Re:AppFog Wants To Do For Developer Platforms What Google Di... by manku_timma on Thursday July 26, 2012 @12:52PM (#4297013)
That is true, but what appfog (and the other PaaS providers) do not give is the ability to tweak service[1] configs even to a limited degree. Not needing to worry about Mongo or MySql setup is great, but for all of my non trivial use cases, I have had to adjust configs at least a little.

[1] Cloud Foundry(and by implication AppFog) differentiate apps from services, where services are backend infra like databases.

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