qt contributors summit 2014 - qt on cloud

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Qt on CloudContributor Summit 2014

Miska Kaipiainen ([email protected])Product Manager, Qt Cloud Services


Qt Cloud Services Story

• 2010: Flowd – The music Lover’s Social Network

• 2012: CloudEnd – Generalized server backend for applications

• 2013: Engin.io - Enabling simple cloud data storage for Qt

• 2014: Expanding offering to serve the whole Qt ecosystem; supporting enterprise solutions


Qt Cloud Services


Managed Application Runtimes


What is Managed Application Runtime?

Scalable,Multi-language,Multi-database,

Application Platform as a Service


Some Ideal Applications…

Internet of Things & Embedded• Cloud compute, analyze, metrics and data visualization• Remote management, APIs and configuration of ”things”

Websites• High-traffic campaign & marketing sites• Education, Gaming, Personal…

Customer facing applications• Online Applications• API’s for web, desktop & mobile


Managed Application Runtimes

How does it work?


Supported Languages

Secondary Supported Languages

Scala, Clojure, Play, Gradle, Grails, PHP, Go, Meteorite, Perl, Dart, Nginx, Apache, Jekyll


Add Ons

or choose from our cloud based services

Enginio Data StorageManaged WebSocket

or choose anything with SDK

... Amazon, Azure, Google ...


Agile Development Flow

Use Local Version Control

Deploy to Qt Cloud Services

Write Application

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Deploy using Git – the most common VCS among developers

Developer Friendly Deployment

> git push qtc master


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Instance Sizes and Types

Supported Sizes:• 256MB, 512MB and 1024MB

Supported Types:• Application• MongoDB 2.6• MySQL 5.6• Redis 2.8• Custom Docker Image


Other Features• Security– OAuth2 for REST API– SSH keys for GIT push access– Applications running in docker Linux container

• Command line tool– stdout & stderr log interface


DEMO


Open Discussion TopicsCurrent state of Qt for server-side development?• Serverside REST APIs? Database connectors?• Sinatra-like request router?

How Qt can be improved to support connected application development?• Sharing models and data between server and clients?• De-facto RPC for serverside comms?

How to streamline application development flow?• Integration to Qt tooling?• Local debugging features?


Thank You!www.qtcloudservices.com

If you want Managed Runtime early access, please sign up athttps://qtcloudservices.com/early-access

If you want more information, please [email protected]