My head just isn’t in the clouds
Don’t get me wrong, I welcome the era of open-computing, APIs and shared computing. I just can’t trust it yet. I can’t help think that I’m simply not ready to build anything on a cloud.
Recently Gmail has been acting, let’s say, “buggy”, to be kind, around the same time it launched it’s task manager service. Meanwhile Yahoo has been having a few financial hiccups of its own. And these are the big boys. Twitter has been up longer than usual, but you just know we’ll see the whale again. I recently tinkered with BOSS with another service’s API. All was good until the service went down for a bit. The first thing I could think of was, “Thank goodness I’m not charging for this”. Right now, when Google hiccups, my sites slow down, searches don’t work and there’s nothing I can do. Mind you, I’m only taking into account reliability issues, but what if the cloud’s pillars… shift?