Yandex has launched Cocaine an open source platform for application developers

Yandex, the largest Russian search engine, has launched an open source platform for application developers. Called Cocaine, it ranks competitor to Google App Engine.



Cocaine is a Russian platform open source PaaS (Platform as a Service), which allows developers to create their own applications. It clearly trying to compete with rival Yandex, namely the U.S. Google. It supports C + +, Python and JavaScript.

Yandex uses Docker as virtualization technology infrastructure and isolation of the application on the platform Cocaine. Operating in almost any environment, Docker is one of the most widely used open source a new kind of cloud services technologies.

Slogan of this new service is also provocative that its name: "Take some cocaine in your containers" (Grab some cocaine in containers ").