Tag Archives: Heroku

February 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Apprenda Shifts the Game on Polyglot Vs Best of Breed PaaS

By Ben Kepes

One of the biggest battles raging in the PaaS world has been between the Polyglot and the Best of Breed camps. In the polyglot corner stands Heroku, Engine Yard and Cloud Foundry who all say that only a platform that gives an organization the ability to develop in multiple different

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February 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

By Ben Kepes

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent release of Cloud Foundry, and the significant uptake it has had

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February 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

By Ben Kepes

Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way to ensure your name would live on after your death. While

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February 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Garantia Goes GA

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Garantia, the Israeli startup that is aiming to overcome some of the disadvantages that NoSQL databases come with – namely lack of persistence and scalability. Garantia’s solution is to offer Memcached with higher reliability and Redis with high scalability in an automated manner. Specific advantages include:

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February 7, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Appsecute Launches a DevOps Focused Social Stream

By Ben Kepes

Exciting times at Appsecute at the moment as the team begins to unveil its new vision for the company. When the company first started (and, for anyone not aware of the fact, I’m an investor and board member) our vision was to provide a single place to manage all the

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January 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

By Ben Kepes

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and Heroku was creating a real gravity pull for developers and that

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December 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Acquires Prior Knowledge

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago salesforce announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company Prior Knowledge. The announcement came on the day before Thanksgiving and hence was little reported – interestingly the Prior Knowledge team moves quickly to shut down the API for their public product, Veritable, as well as

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November 29, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Heroku Joins Cloud Foundry for Multi-PaaS Support from Appsecute

By Ben Kepes

Let’s settle two things from the outset – firstly, PaaS is (I believe) the future of cloud services and will be the area for growth in the coming years. Secondly, I’m an investor and board member in Appsecute so I’m naturally bullish about what they’re doing. That said, today’s announcement

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October 4, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

If Developers are the new Kingmakers–Salesforce is Starting to Own the Castle

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been attending Salesforce’s user conference now for a few years and one thing that’s always been a little awkward is the fact that Salesforce has always tried to make the event meaningful for developers but has generally created a kind of Frankenstein beast where suited business types get highbrow

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September 17, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Apprenda Introduces Free Public-Cloud Hosted Version of Its PaaS

By Ben Kepes

In the seeming ever increasing rush towards so-called polyglot PaaS, or PaaS-providers supporting every language under the sun, there has been a single lone voice that has consistently been saying polyglot is a failed methodology. New York based Apprenda makes a .NET PaaS and has long said that only through

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