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 - June 2009
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.