In a video on the DotCloud site, CEO Solomon Hykes explains the company's offering
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Flexible platform-as-a-service cloud operator DotCloud announced this week that it has parthered with web development language Opa to distribute the language as Opa@DotCloud, a new platform enabling web programming.
DotCloud is a cloud platform operator that promises to make deploying applications to the cloud simple by enabling applications developed using any programming language or database to be quickly and easily configured, uploaded and run in its cloud environment.
Opa says it offers a complete stack for web application development, based on a new programming language, and integrated with web server, database engine and distribution libraries.
“Existing web development tools have not evolved as fast as the applications in terms of user experience,” says Henri Binsztok, the founder and CEO of MLstate, the company behind Opa, quoted in the press release. “Instead of designing beautiful applications, developers have to worry about low-level aspects. They have to waste time managing ‘glue code’ to get client-server and database communications right. They also have to figure out how to set up their applications online, worry about scaling, high availability, data replication, etc. Opa and DotCloud will change all of that.”
The partnership seems founded, in part, on the companies’ shared impressions about principles that can or could simplify the work of developers building applications for the web, and the cloud.
“We are delighted to partner with Opa,” said Solomon Hykes, the founder and CEO of DotCloud, also quoted in the press release. “DotCloud seeks to democratize web application development as opposed to forcing developers to use a particular language, framework or database in exchange for running it on our platform. What Opa is doing is really cool and we are really happy to be changing the web development world together.”
According to the DotCloud website, developers can test out the company’s solution for free, an offer that would likely include the Opa-partnered version at some point in the near future, if not already.
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