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by chubot 5192 days ago
Interesting -- what were the problems that came up from running real services? Was there a fundamental architectural issue, or just polishing off all the corner cases? Fault tolerance issues? Too complex? Idempotency, state management, etc.?

I tried VMWare's cloud foundry. It's hidden behind a signup form that has to be approved. Other than that it seemed decent. I managed to get through the hello world and have a working rails app. Not as good as Heroku. I'm not really sure if VMWare really wants people to use their service, or they just want people to run their own Cloud Foundry so they can sell VM licenses.

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> I'm not really sure if VMWare really wants people to use their service, or they just want people to run their own Cloud Foundry so they can sell VM licenses.

I'm not sure they've figured it out themselves, either :)