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Lucas Carlson founded AppFog, a PaaS company that leveraged Cloud Foundry and was acquired by CenturyLink. Lucas has been a developer for 20 years and specializes in Ruby on Rails development. Lucas has authored Programming for PaaS and the Ruby Cookbook and has written half a dozen libraries in various programming languages and contributed to many others, including Rails and RedCloth. He maintains a personal website at rufy.com.
Lucas Carlson is an entrepreneur featured in the NYT Bestselling Book, the Lean Entrepreneur. He is also an author, speaker and leader in the cloud space.
Lucas was the CEO and founder of a massively popular and successful startup called AppFog which was acquired by CenturyLink in 2013. AppFog signed up more than 100,000 developers, raised nearly $10M in venture funding and has become an industry leading Platform-as-a-Service.
Lucas is now the Chief Innovation Officer for CenturyLink, in charge of building next-generation products for a $20B company.
Lucas currently lives in Portland, OR, advises startups and plays go.
Excellent information about "Platform as a Surface" or PaaS. I picked this book because I sat in on a presentation that Lucas Carlson the author gave at VMworld 2013. This book is really insightful for me from an infrastructure standpoint because I want to begin building these types of environments for my developers and getting a feel of what's available and what other systems do is invaluable.
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This book is a good backgrounder on PaaS - so much so that I think it'd be a good read for someone looking to learn more about it vs other things (IaaS or other clouds). I though the programming part was a little thin. I think PaaS is still in its infancy and the challenge of a survey of PaaS programming techniques will get even harder. Maybe down the road books will emerge that focus on specific parts of PaaS. The bottomline is I thought the book could have been better on the programming side if it went deeper - but that's a hard thing to do with such a broad survey.
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