If we take out the evangelism of public cloud providers, Appirio is one company that is pushing public clouds hard into the enterprise market, may be even harder than Marc Benioff. An attempt like this from Appirio is interesting and worth a look. Even though they made their announcement couple of weeks ago, I just got a chance to have a chat with Chief Architect and Evangelist of CloudSpokes, Dave Messinger, and hence the delayed analysis.
For the public clouds to be successful, there should be large number of developers developing for the multi-tenant public cloud platforms. Even though companies like Google and Microsoft are focussing their efforts on cloud platforms now, the earlier efforts were mainly from startups like Twilio and others. In order to get a critical mass of developers around public cloud platforms, there is clearly a need for a concerted effort from the public cloud providers.
Even though there are communities like Elance, TopCoder and others, there are no community dedicated to public cloud platforms with strong evangelists backing them.
Since developing for cloud is different from the traditional ways of development, there is a clear need for education and training too. Existing communities may not care much about pushing the public cloud development because the big chunk of their money today is still coming from the traditional development models.
This highlights the imminent need for a public cloud based developer community with focus on evangelism, education and training. Appirio is not just a public cloud based systems integrator but also an unabashed evangelists of public clouds.
If you listen to their top executives, they may even deny the existence of private cloud itself. Their very survival is dependent on the success of public cloud concept and platforms in that space. They understand that it can only happen if there are large number of developers focussing their careers on developing for public cloud platforms.
Even though they have a strong onshore and offshore development team, their success in the market requires a large army of developers. For a growing company like Appirio, it is difficult to both find good developers and then keep them on their payroll. A strong developer community around their company will help them identify talent and keep them engaged at a lower cost.
The net result is CloudSpokes, a public cloud developer community initially seeded by Appirio. They hope that this money and the interests shown by some of the cloud platform providers like Twilio will lure a critical mass of developers towards this community.
Having done similar community around open source at a much smaller scale, I am both excited and skeptical about this announcement. I will put forward some of my thoughts on this announcement here. First and, foremost, a community like this is the need of the hour for the public cloud market.
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