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AppFog Blog
blog.appfog.com · Company blog · on HN since 2011
AppFog's company blog covers its platform-as-a-service, with tutorials, NoOps, Node.js in the enterprise, and Docker.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for the NoOps explanation, Node.js enterprise adoption, and PaaS versus VPS cost, and one criticizes its dropping of git support.
31HN people shared it
10linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1NoOps is a response to the schlep blindness of developers doing SysOps.3 people · 7 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 2Could Portland be the best city in the country for developers right now?2 people · 27 points · first shared 2012 · 26 comments on HN
- 3AppFog: Tunnel to your database from your dev machine2 people · 24 points · first shared 2011 · 9 comments on HN
- 4Docker and the Future of the PaaS Layer2 people · 16 points · first shared 2013 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Node.js is taking over the Enterprise - Like it or Not2 people · 8 points · first shared 2012 · 4 comments on HN
- 6How to update your app on AppFog with Git2 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 7If PaaS is expensive and slow, why not use a VPS?2 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8Getting started with Redis on AppFog: a Redis/Sinatra/Haml tutorial2 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9Node.js + RabbitMQ + AppFog -- A Tutorial2 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10Memory and Instance Configuration for Running WordPress on AppFog2 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11PHP: the quiet powerhouse1 people · 89 points · first shared 2012 · 134 comments on HN
- 12What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming1 people · 88 points · first shared 2013 · 29 comments on HN
- 13AppFog acquires Nodester1 people · 62 points · first shared 2012 · 3 comments on HN
- 14Why JSON will continue to push XML out of the picture1 people · 29 points · first shared 2012 · 45 comments on HN
- 15AppFog launches first Cloud Foundry service with paid plans1 people · 19 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
gkelly · 2012-10-07
Well there's this, recently on HN:
http://blog.appfog.com/could-portland-be-the-best-city-in-the-country-…
cardmagic · 2012-02-02
I have clarified a lot of the great questions that have come out of the infographic we created here: http://blog.appfog.com/what-is-noops-anyhow/
rpedela · 2014-02-23
Interesting. Here is a blog post about Node.js in the enterprise including Fortune 500.
http://blog.appfog.com/node-js-is-taking-over-the-enterprise-whether-y…
meritt · 2012-11-13
Purely informative but it seems you can add commit hooks to your version control to connect to theirs: http://blog.appfog.com/553/
Seems pretty stupid to drop support of git in favor of their own product.
malachismith · 2012-07-31
I think the answers are here: http://blog.appfog.com/if-paas-is-expensive-and-slow-why-not-use-a-vps…
ericcholis · 2012-07-26
I'm seeing a lot of comments talking about "just get a {VPS, dedicate box, Amazon, etc...}". I think people are missing the point. AppFog is trying to take all the "hard" work out of SysOps. Think Chef on crack, you are paying for their pre-configured infrastructure from the top down.
Their idea is provide a powerful, scaleable platform quickly and easily. Their mentality is called NoOps (http://blog.appfog.com/what-is-noops-anyhow/). It's a cheesy marketing term, and pissed a lot of people off, but it's pretty spot on for what their service offers.
EwanToo · 2012-07-26
I don't know any Ruby beyond absolute basics, and definitely didn't need to use it to get started.
If you're using OS X or Linux, just run these 3 commands in a Terminal:
sudo gem install af
af login
af update [appname]
to upload your app.
See here for more details
http://blog.appfog.com/getting-started-with-appfogs-command-line/
But you can get started with things like Wordpress or Drupal without touching the appfog client, see here for a list of "jumpstarts"
http://docs.appfog.com/getting-started/jumpstarts
Pythondj · 2012-06-18
appfog.com also has outages as well - http://blog.appfog.com/october-27th-downtime-postmortem/ - when going with public cloud, your app's well being is always in 3rd party hands. If you want to mitigate the risk, host your own private PaaS on your own infrastructure - then you can only point your finger at yourself when outages occur.
lucperkins · 2012-06-13
I think you're right about a lot of things. Things like Backbone (which I wrote about at http://blog.appfog.com/putting-some-mvc-meat-into-your-app-backbone-js… will make recourse to the back end more and more selective as time goes by. JavaScript is indeed quite a force, and as far as I can tell that will stop only when browsers start reading other languages directly (which is not completely unthinkable, but also not really on the horizon).
My point was not directed so much against JavaScript as against the notion that PHP is simply an anachronism.
There's also nothing stopping you from using lots and lots of front-end JavaScript in a PHP-driven context...
jvoorhis · 2011-11-19
We're dogfooding at AppFog. We self-host our web management console (see http://blog.appfog.com/creating-your-first-app-in-appfog-in-under-5-mi…
When we needed a staging environment, it was just an `af push` away.