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Internet application development -- cheap and easySlide2
Where does this topic fit?Internet conceptsApplicationsTechnologyImplicationsInternet skills
Application developmentContent creationUser skillsSlide3
Why its cheap and easy
1. The ecosystem
2. The cloudSlide4
The ecosystem makes new apps cheap and easySlide5
Twitter home page, September
30, 2006Slide6
Twitter home page, November 9, 2006Slide7
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675Slide8
Why its cheap and easy
2. The cloudSlide9
Amazon Web Service bill -- $.01Slide10
Smooth scalingSlide11
Development toolsSlide12
The rest of usSlide13
SummarySlide14
Self-study questionsTwo strategic factors make developing a new Internet service cheap and quick – describe them.Google and Facebook have APIs for developers wishing to build applications on top of their
services and databases. Give examples of some of the capabilities they provide to developers.Yelp uses Amazon’s Web services for their site. Read this case study:http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/ and answer these questions:How much traffic does Yelp handle?Briefly describe the Amazon services that Yelp uses.What are the business advantages to Yelp in using Amazon’s Web services?Are there any business disadvantages?Slide15
ResourcesTwitter’s instructions and documentation for developers using their API: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554648/FrontPage
Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com/The business case for Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com/economics/Yelp case study using Amazon Web Wervices: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/yelp/
Other Amazon Web Service case studies:http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/Blog post on infrastructure services: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/01/infrastructure-services-for-developers.htmlStanford class quickly builds applications on the Facebook platform:
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