Future of publically available scalable infrastructure

2007 saw a lot of action in standardized front-ends (i.e. Flex and Silverlight), and 2008 could as well see emergence of standardization for backend: publically available internet infrastructures.

If I am a startup, what do I really need to make my next social internet idea implemented quickly? Infrastructure elements such as Thrudb, Solr and Apache Hadoop integrated with services such as EC2. Some folks are now providing end-to-end stacks so you have full data management. We should expect the evolution of these stacks to standardize scalable service APIs for information store, search, user management, OpenID and so on.

For architects, the two pain-points will be addressed:

• During development cycle, it will be nice to first use local infrastructure and then shift to public infrastructure.
• Freedom to match and mix public infrastructures - not getting tied to one vendor. Multiple images, but same interfaces.
  

Let us wish that these services will be available through all major hosting vendors soon, and prove . Even major players are likely to jump into cloud computing. Let us hope that talk of few players dominating the cloud will prove to be wrong.

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