TEDxJuanDeFuca - Carl Schmidt - Cloud Computing

Carl Schmidt on the potential impacts of cloud computing

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[RazputinOleander]

Cloud computing really has lowered the barrier to entry. It's amazing that you can throw together a rails app to make a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, hook up with other SaaS (and non-Saas) companies, like Chargify (for payments), Theme Forest (for theming your site), then deploy to a cloud service like Heroku - where you can start on the free plan until you get enough traffic where you pay for the next level of service and "automatically" support it.