Our Vision

Shared Objective with Our Customers

Enabling everybody to easily develop, test, deploy, and host web applications.

What is the current state?

Nowadays, developing, deploying, and hosting web applications requires a tremendous amount of work and skills. For example, to host a web application you need to rent or buy a server, install it, configure a web application, and database server, and maintain all of it. Additionally, deploying a service that, for example, was written in PHP, Ruby, or Java requires you to copy your service to that server, test it on the server, and take care that everything works well in that environment. This environment will usually consists of three tiers (i.e. browser, middleware, and database) all of which require extra configuration and administration effort. Moreover, each tier has its own data model (e.g. Tables or Objects) and programming language (Java Script, Java, or SQL). All this is painful to create and maintain.

What do we want to achieve?

The vision of 28msec, Inc. is to provide one platform to easily develop, test, deploy, and host web applications. Specifically, a user who has a great idea and wants to offer a service on the web should be able to develop and test this service on his (client) machine. After successfully developing the service he wants to publish it. Publishing should not require more effort then pushing one button on his machine. The service will be deployed on 28msec's infrastructure. This infrastructure is build on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS are a set of services that can be invoked in order to store files (S3), use queues (SQS), or computation time (EC2). All of them have in common that they do not require administration effort and are highly scalable.

What tools do we use and provide?

Specifically, 28msec uses and provides the following components:

• Zorba XQuery Engine (Open Source with Apache License; FLWOR foundation)
• Eclipse plugin for rapid development of applications written with XQuery
• XQuery Debugger
• Complete client-side runtime environment for testing your applications
• Deployment tool to deploy your service on the 28msec's infrastructure on AWS

What else do you get?

After deploying your application, we will provide you with an URL to access your service. This URL can be used by everybody to access the service. We will also provide you with a web-based management portal for managing (e.g. upgrading) your service or viewing usage statistics. All of our software will run on Amazon EC2. Your software and data will be securely stored on Amazon S3.

If you wish to play around with our platform for free, register a Beta User Account and get started.