Wil Sinclair

Cloud Evangelist Consultant at Makara

Wil Sinclair works on technologies that facilitate and encourage cloud adoption in the PHP community. His Simple Cloud API enables "cloud native" applications that can be deployed on all major clouds. He brings 10 years of experience in the software industry at companies from the smallest of startups to large multinationals such as Oracle and Amazon. Most recently he served as project lead on the leading PHP framework: Zend Framework.

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Article: PHP’s Forecast: Partly Cloudy
You’ve probably heard about “the cloud”. It’s the latest buzzword circulating in Silicon Valley and beyond. In some ways, “cloud” is a fitting name - everyone sees something different when they look at it. For example, offerings as dissimilar as force.com and Amazon’s MapReduce service have worked their way in to “the cloud” moniker at some point. Even the cloud’s biggest advocates can’t agree on what “the cloud” is. But in teasing the facts out of all the hype, you’ll find some services that could change how you write and deploy your PHP applications forever.


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  • Process Patterns
  • December 28 2010
    Allow me to coin a word: hack·le /ˈhækəl/, noun - A group of 2 or more people working with little or no coordination on one or  more software projects: Apache is “a patchy” web server built with patches submitted by a large, distributed hackle from around the world. Yes, there are already enough words in the [...] ...
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  • Visualize Server Ease
  • June 07 2010
    I just got back from the International PHP Conference, Spring Edition, and a new company paid my airfare. Makara has asked me to help tell the PHP crowd about their product and establish an OSS community around future projects. Call me lazy, but I prefer to work on projects that largely sell themselves. Makara is [...] ...
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  • Programming the Metacloud
  • May 19 2010
    A friend of mine who’s been thinking about the cloud for a while now came by last week for dinner. Not only does he grok what I’ve been calling the metacloud, he’s already thinking about (and building) a ‘cloud-native’, object-oriented language to program it. After a couple of beers- both drunk by me- he and I took [...] ...
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  • The Inevitable Metacloud
  • May 13 2010
    I've been thinking a lot about the cloud lately. Let me float a few of my latest ideas here. ...
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  • Hello Lithium!
  • March 26 2010
    That's right, I'm working a new framework. Lithium's the name, the Union of RAD is the game. ...
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  • Goodbye Zend
  • March 25 2010
    You read it right. With the turn of the year, I turned a page in my career. I really wish that didn't rhyme. ...
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  • ZendCon gets its Cloud On
  • October 19 2009
    I’m a busy guy this week. I’m talking about PHP and Platform Independence in the Cloud at ZendCon, as well as sitting on the keynote panel about Developing on the Cloud. The Simple Cloud API site is due for an update, too. But I’m not the only one busting ass to bring the cloud to [...] ...
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  • The Simple Cloud API has landed!
  • September 26 2009
    Welcome to a simpler cloud! ...
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  • Zend Framework Knocks Out Another Amazon Service
  • August 11 2009
    With the new Zend_Service_Amazon_SQS component in Zend Framework 1.9, ZF is quickly becoming the tool of choice for PHP developers building applications for the Amazon flavor of the cloud. This brings us up to full EC2, S3, and now SQS support, and I’m working with ZF’s best to fill out this list with SimpleDB in [...] ...
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