Re: Cloud Service comparison: Google App Engine vs. Joyent

Just to be clear, Facebook is not using Joyent, rather the vendors of
apps that run within Facebook are using Joyent. I'm sure part of the
popularity is just due to the fact that Joyent has been around a lot
longer than AppEngine.

The language issue isn't superficial in my opinion. AppEngine
customers face vendor lock in on a significant scale because the
entire AppEngine platform is proprietary with bigtable, mapreduce,
etc. Joyent, Mosso and others don't suffer his vendor lock in, because
they support more standard environments like relational databases and
an array of programming languages.

On top of that, you have the Googlenoia and growing impression of
Google as the company putting smaller application providers out of
business, replacing Microsoft as the company everyone loves to hate.

- randall

On Jun 12, 3:05 pm, "Michael Moran" <profes.....@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to the "Cloud Computing" entry in Wikipedia, it states
> that "Currently 25% of Facebook daily active application usage runs on
> Joyent." Can anyone provide reasons why Facebook uses Joyent instead of,
> say, Google App Engine?
> Also, in more general terms, can anyone provide examples where Joyent would
> be better than Google App Engine, or vice-versa?
> Superficially, it appears the main difference, from a developers point of
> view, is that Joyent offers wider language support than Google's App Engine
> (python only).
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> --Michael
> Miami, FL

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