Independent services platform

A method performed by a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of computers, the method comprising:

• maintaining a first software platform system configured to host user-provided computing tasks in a cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the first software platform system is configured to receive a computing task, provision computing resources in an underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more instances of the computing task using the provisioned computing resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure;
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• maintaining a different second services platform system configured to host services in the cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system for multiple different software platform systems including the first software platform system, wherein the different second services platform system is configured to provision independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and to launch one or more service instances of a service using the provisioned independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure,
• wherein the different second services platform system is configured (i) to receive a first bind request from a first user device and a second bind request from a second user device and (ii) to provide, by the different second services platform system, binding information to one or more first computing tasks hosted by the first software platform system in response to receiving the first bind request and provide binding information to one or more second computing tasks hosted by another platform from the multiple different software platform systems in response to receiving the second bind request.

One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with computer program instructions that when executed by a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of computers cause the plurality of computers to perform operations comprising:

• maintaining a first software platform system configured to host user-provided computing tasks in a cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the first software platform system is configured to receive a computing task, provision computing resources in an underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more instances of the computing task using the provisioned computing resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure;
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• maintaining a different second services platform system configured to host services in the cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system for multiple different software platform systems including the first software platform system, wherein the different second services platform system is configured to provision independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and to launch one or more service instances of a service using the provisioned independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure,
• wherein the different second services platform system is configured (i) to receive a first bind request from a first user device and a second bind request from a second user device and (ii) to provide, by the different second services platform system, binding information to one or more first computing tasks hosted by the first software platform system in response to receiving the first bind request and provide binding information to one or more second computing tasks hosted by another platform from the multiple different software platform systems in response to receiving the second bind request.