Adam WigginsGluecon 2010

What they are, and why you should build one

Cloud Services

Cloud services

Defining “cloud service” by example

Amazon S3

Amazon S3binary asset cloud service

Binary assets aren’t hard

Binary assets aren’t hard...until you need to scale

Outsource the headache of binary assets to S3

New Relic

New Relicperformance metrics cloud service

Storing metrics and rendering graphs isn’t hard

Storing metrics and rendering graphs isn’t hard...until you need to scale

Outsource the headache of performance metrics to New Relic

Send/recieve email from your app

Email isn’t hard

Email isn’t hard...until you need to scale

Outsource the headache of email to...

‣Authsmtp

‣Authsmtp‣Sendgrid

‣Authsmtp‣Sendgrid‣Postmark

Can we take it further?

Database

Running a database isn’t hard

Running a database isn’t hard...until you need to scale

Outsource the headache of running a database

‣MongoHQ

‣MongoHQ‣Cloudant (CouchDB)

‣MongoHQ‣Cloudant (CouchDB)‣Amazon SimpleDB

‣MongoHQ‣Cloudant (CouchDB)‣Amazon SimpleDB‣MongoMachine

‣MongoHQ‣Cloudant (CouchDB)‣Amazon SimpleDB‣MongoMachine‣Amazon RDS (MySQL)

The pattern

Software infrastructure for apps

Run as a hosted, managed service

Ops, scaling, maintenance handled by the cloud service provider

Customer pays provider proportional to usage

Why should you build a cloud service?

An emerging market full of exciting opportunities

Now is the perfect time to build a cloud service

The End.

Adam Wigginshttp://adam.heroku.com