AppScale

AppScale
Developer(s) Chris Donati, Meni Vaitsi, Tanvi Marballi, Chandra Krintz, Graziano Obertelli, et al.
Initial release 1.0 2009-03-07[1]
Stable release
3.0.1 / 4 August 2016 (2016-08-04)[2]
Written in Python, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP
Operating system Linux
Type Cloud computing
License Apache 2.0
Website www.appscale.com

AppScale is an open-source cloud computing platform that automatically deploys and scales unmodified Google App Engine applications over public and private cloud systems, as well as on-premises clusters.[3] AppScale is modeled on the App Engine APIs and has support for Go, Java, PHP, and Python applications.[4]

The goal of AppScale is to provide developers with a rapid, API-driven development platform that can run applications on any cloud infrastructure.[5] AppScale decouples app logic from its service ecosystem to give developers and cloud administrators control over app deployment, data storage, resource use, backup and migration.[6]

AppScale is developed and maintained by AppScale Systems, Inc., based in Santa Barbara, California, and Google.[7]

History

AppScale began as a research project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Computer Science Department under the supervision of Professor Chandra Krintz.[8] The project was originally funded by the NSF, with additional funding from Google, IBM and NIH. In 2012, co-founders Dr. Chandra Krintz, Chief Scientist, Dr. Navraj Chohan, Development Lead, and Woody Rollins, CEO founded AppScale Systems to commercialize the private PaaS AppScale technology. Rollins, a pioneer in private cloud infrastructure, was a co-founder and former CEO of Eucalyptus Systems.[9] In 2014, Graziano Obertelli joined AppScale as VP of Operations from Eucalyptus Systems, where he was a co-founder.

In April 2014, AppScale Systems was named a 2014 Cool Vendor in PaaS by Gartner, Inc.[10] In September 2014, AppScale Systems won a Bossie Award from InfoWorld for best open source data center and cloud software[11]

Open source components

Supported platforms

Supported languages

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://downloads.appscale.com
  2. ↑ https://github.com/AppScale/
  3. ↑ AppScale Launches As An Open-Source Backup Equivalent To Google App Engine. TechCrunch (2013-06-24). Retrieved on 2013-09-18.
  4. ↑ Google App Engine Blog: Research Project: AppScale at University of California, Santa Barbara. Googleappengine.blogspot.com (2010-10-22). Retrieved on 2013-09-18.
  5. ↑ Darrow, Barb. (2013-06-04) AppScale’s mission: Making your mobile apps really mobile — Tech News and Analysis. Gigaom.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-18.
  6. ↑ . Yahoo! Finance (2014-06-10). Retrieved on 2014-07-10.
  7. ↑ Lee, Justin. (2013-06-28) . The WHIR. Retrieved on 2014-07-10.
  8. ↑ Urquhart, James. (2009-06-22) The new generation of cloud-development platforms | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News. News.cnet.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-18.
  9. ↑ Google App Engine Blog: Research Project: AppScale at University of California, Santa Barbara. Googleappengine.blogspot.com (2010-10-22). Retrieved on 2013-09-18.
  10. ↑ . Gartner, Inc. (2014-04-28). Retrieved on 2014-08-06.
  11. ↑ . InfoWorld (2014-09-29). Retrieved on 2014-10-14.
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