Joyent合理地收购Google App Engine

There are two issues that developers face when picking a cloud hosting environment. Either they have to worry about managing their infrastructure, meaning additional work when they need to scale rapidly — as is the case with Amazon’s Web Services stack, or Rackspace’s Mosso. Or, they have to worry about technology and vendor lock-in — as is the case with Google’s App Engine, which currently limits developers to writing applications in Python, or Microsoft’s Azure, which right now expects developers to use .NET.

开发人员在选择云托管环境时面临两个问题。 他们要么担心管理基础架构，就意味着在需要Swift扩展时需要进行额外的工作(例如Amazon的Web服务堆栈或Rackspace的Mosso就是这种情况)。 或者，他们必须担心技术和供应商的锁定-Google的App Engine就是这种情况，目前它限制了开发人员使用Python编写应用程序，或者Microsoft的Azure目前希望开发人员使用.NET。

Joyent’s Accelerator cloud computing platform works a lot like the former variety of cloud platform. But today the company announced the acquisition of open source cloud computing platform Reasonably Smart, which makes theirs slightly more of a hybrid approach.

Joyent的 Accelerator云计算平台的工作方式与以前的各种云平台非常相似。 但是今天，该公司宣布收购开源云计算平台Reasonable Smart ，这使他们的业务更多地是一种混合方法。

Reasonably Smart is described by Joyent Founder and CEO David Young as “an auto-scaling platform-as-a-service; it is a direct, open-source competitor to Google App Engine.” The open source platform, which is currently in alpha, takes care of scaling and architecture issues for the developer, while expecting them to use JavaScript to write their back end code. Reasonably Smart adds extensions to accomplish things JavaScript wasn’t originally designed to do, such as storage.

Joyent创始人兼首席执行官David Young将合理合理地描述为“一种自动扩展的平台即服务； 它是Google App Engine的直接开源竞争对手。” 当前处于Alpha状态的开源平台为开发人员解决了扩展和体系结构问题，同时希望他们使用JavaScript编写后端代码。 合理地，Smart添加了扩展来完成JavaScript最初不打算做的事情，例如存储。

Though JavaScript isn’t generally thought of as a server-side language, Young writes that he expects that it “will become the language of scale for the web.” The platform is also expected to add support for other languages in the coming months.

尽管一般不将JavaScript视为服务器端语言，但Young写道，他希望它“将成为Web的扩展语言”。 预计该平台还将在未来几个月内增加对其他语言的支持。

What makes Joyent + Reasonably Smart different than App Engine or Azure, is that because Reasonably Smart is open source and will remain that way, developers don’t have to worry so much about vendor lock-in. Joyent will offer Reasonably Smart via their Accelerators (starting in a couple of months), but developers can always download it and run it anywhere else — meaning they can leave Joyent at any time (or skip Joyent altogether).

Joyent +合理智能与App Engine或Azure的不同之处在于，由于“合理智能”是开源的，并且将保持这种状态，因此开发人员不必担心供应商锁定。 Joyent将通过其Accelerator提供“合理的智能”功能(几个月后开始)，但是开发人员可以随时下载并在其他任何地方运行它-这意味着他们可以随时离开Joyent(或完全跳过Joyent)。

The price of the acquisition was not disclosed.

收购价格未透露。

翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/joyent-acquires-reasonably-smart-to-take-on-google-app-engine/