With the new Zend_Service_Amazon_SQS component in Zend Framework 1.9, ZF is quickly becoming the tool of choice for PHP developers building applications for the Amazon flavor of the cloud. This brings us up to full EC2, S3, and now SQS support, and I’m working with ZF’s best to fill out this list with SimpleDB in 1.10.
While elastic compute clouds have gotten most of the attention in the deafening cloud buzz of late, runtime services such as hashtable databases, robust storage, and simple queues are equally important IMO. After all, what good is an infinitely scalable compute cloud when your applications can’t scale with it?
You’ll hear more preaching from me on this subject in the coming months. For now, you can start getting the runtime cloud religion by checking out my cloud service primer.
Later.
,Wil
