If you are into cloud app development and will be anywhere near San Francisco on December 6, 2010, you don’t want to miss a radically new, and FREE, cloud-agnostic event that is sure to have something for everyone: Cloudstock.

The session explained how and why Ruby on Rails (RoR) Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings such as Engine Yard are becoming formidable competition to perhaps more well-known PaaS options such as Force.com, Google App Engine, and Microsoft Azure.

I recently contributed to a short article over at CIO titled 5 Things You Need to Know about Platform as a Service. The article quotes yours truly as stating that scalability is not guaranteed when you move to the cloud. The article quotes me as saying “That’s one of the great myths—that as soon as you go to the cloud, you scale.” Because all of my thoughts were not included in this article, I’ll expand [...]