The AppScale Cloud Platform: Enabling Portable, Scalable Web Application Deployment

Author

Krintz, Chandra

Author_Institution

Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

March-April 2013

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

75

Abstract

AppScale is an open source distributed software system that implements a cloud platform as a service (PaaS). AppScale makes cloud applications easy to deploy and scale over disparate cloud fabrics, implementing a set of APIs and architecture that also makes apps portable across the services they employ. AppScale is API-compatible with Google App Engine (GAE) and thus executes GAE applications on-premise or over other cloud infrastructures, without modification.

Keywords

application program interfaces; cloud computing; distributed processing; public domain software; API; AppScale cloud platform; GAE application; Google App Engine; PaaS; Web application deployment; application program interface; cloud application; cloud fabric; cloud infrastructure; cloud platform-as-a-service; open source distributed software system; Biological system modeling; Cloud computing; Engines; Fabrics; Google; Programming; GAE; Google App Engine; NoSQL; PaaS; Web services; cloud; cloud platform; hybrid cloud computing; open source; platform as a service; portability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2013.38

Filename

6488671