[okfn-discuss] Use Cloud tools to create Open Data apps?

Sat Feb 18 12:40:09 UTC 2012

Great thanks guys.

But what I mean is a specific focus on 'PaaS'. These guys like ep.io are 
'IaaS', ie. hosting for Python apps, which is the kind of tool I would 
imagine lots of Open Data developers are using, but my question is can you 
use other Cloud tools, like Salesforce.com or Google Apps, to do the same 
thing as Python?

Also is there any extra benefit in doing so? For example if you use 
Force.com, could you get better CRM integration? etc.

Thanks, Neil.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefano Costa" <stefano.costa at okfn.org>
To: "Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list" 
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Cc: "Neil McEvoy" <neil.mcevoy at l5consulting.net>; "okfn-discuss" 
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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Use Cloud tools to create Open Data apps?

Quoting elf Pavlik <perpetual-tripper at wwelves.org>:

> Excerpts from Neil McEvoy's message of 2012-02-11 10:51:36 +0000:
> >
> > Hey folks
> >
> > I'm looking to create a 'How to create open data apps' guide kinda 
> > thing,
> from a slant of the Cloud tools you might use.

For Python apps: http://www.ep.io/

    ep.io just deploys WSGI applications, offering PostgreSQL and Redis - so
    I think moving your app to another platform should be easy. Django and 
Flask
    are first-class citizens.

For Python, Ruby and others: http://www.heroku.com/

    I have never used Heroku myself, but I think it's not very different 
from
    ep.io, it's probably for larger projects.

Ciao
steko

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