| | |  | Investigations | Home » » Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) | | | | | | | Description: | | If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.
While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications into these virtualized services. Cloud Application Architectures provides answers -- and critical guidance -- on issues of cost, availability, performance, scaling, privacy, and security.
With Cloud Application Architectures, you will: - Understand the differences between traditional deployment and cloud computing
- Determine whether moving existing applications to the cloud makes technical and business sense
- Analyze and compare the long-term costs of cloud services, traditional hosting, and owning dedicated servers
- Learn how to build a transactional web application for the cloud or migrate one to it
- Understand how the cloud helps you better prepare for disaster recovery
- Change your perspective on application scaling
To provide realistic examples of the book's principles in action, the author delves into some of the choices and operations available on Amazon Web Services, and includes high-level summaries of several of the other services available on the market today.
Cloud Application Architectures provides best practices that apply to every available cloud service. Learn how to make the transition to the cloud and prepare your web applications to succeed.
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• ISBN13: 9780596156367
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| George Reese | | Paperback:
| 208 pages | | Publisher:
| O'Reilly Media | | Publication Date:
| April 03, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0596156367 | | Package Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 33 reviews |
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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A good overview of Cloud Computing and Amazon cloudJul 11, 2010
If you are looking to learn some essentials about Cloud computing and Amazon Cloud computing services, this is a book for you. The book covers the basics of cloud computing, addresses its costs vs. benefits, also discussed security, disaster recover, and scalability. This book is heavily focused on Amazon Cloud Computing with some information about Rackspace and GoGrid. It does not include many other Cloud providers and services like Force.com (Salesforce), etc. This book is a good reading and reference in general.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good for the right audienceMay 13, 2010
In Short: If you're looking for a book that explains how the AWS EC2 & S3 services can be used to implement transactional web applications on the IaaS model, while accommodating enterprise architectural needs, such as security, disaster recovery, and scalability, this is a good book for you.
This book provides a good introduction to cloud computing, but it focuses on a specific usage paradigm. As such the title is a little misleading; instead of providing a variety of cloud application architectural patterns, this book focuses on web application development using the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. That is to say, the discussion covers a subset of IaaS; it neither covers other models (e.g. PaaS) or other uses of the IaaS model (workflow-based, sometimes called "scientific" or grid-based, applications).
The book also focuses on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the implementation context. I think this is a practical approach, given the aforementioned usage focus as was just mentioned. The VAST majority of web application development using the IaaS model is implemented via AWS.
If you are a developer who knows that the usage pattern described above is applicable to your needs, this is a great book to get introduced to AWS prior to a design effort for a new project. It covers high-level (architectural) concerns such as reliability and security which should be considered at the outset of such a project. It is concise, and clearly written (assuming a technical audience).
If, however, you are looking for more of an overview, perhaps cataloging all the various architectural options that fall within cloud computing, or if you are looking specifically for information on other cloud usage patterns (grid computing, Platform as a Service, or Software as a Service), you'll want a different book.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 What a bore.Apr 29, 2010
This book was such a bore to read. The phrase 'Building Applications' led me to believe that this book might possibly be about building applications. Unfortunately, it was mostly CIO-speak. Awful, awful.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Easy to read introduction focusing on architecture, best practices.Feb 08, 2010
Book provides a good overview of cloud architectures and best practices, with a slant towards architecting transactional web-based systems for security, failure recovery, and so on. Heavy emphasis on Amazon S3, EC2 and related offerings, so if you are curious about deploying to Amazon's cloud, a good overview. Nice short book at 150 pages, easy to read in a few settings. But if you are new to this space, a good overview doesn't need to be 1000 pages to get you going. Also contains a couple of appendices that describe Amazon APIs and other cloud ISPs such as Rackspace. I recommend this book if you are looking at a quick overview of architectures and discussion of issues you need to think about to deal with security, data integrity, costs, disaster recovery. Your choice of cloud provider may not be Amazon, but these issues need to be considered regardless.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Excellent introduction to cloud computing.Feb 01, 2010
If the film The Graduate were set today, Mr. McGuire's career advice for Ben Braddock might not be one word: "plastics," but two words: "cloud computing."
So what is cloud computing? It is an arrangement whereby the end user's computer does not need to hold within itself all of the data or software programs and applications that are being used. Instead, the end user is accessing and leveraging third-party systems that are "in the cloud," which is another way of saying remotely connected via the Internet. Anyone who has used Google Mail or Google Docs has used cloud computing.
The beauty of cloud computing is that by leveraging someone else's resources, users can typically save money. Companies that need to quickly set up data centers or expand existing infrastructures can do that less expensively with cloud computing.
For complex environments, setting up cloud computing arrangements will not necessarily be easy. In Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud, author George Reese provides a valuable overview to the topic and details his experiences--both successes and failures--around cloud computing.
As a new physical model for corporate computing, cloud computing requires a completely new approach to security, privacy, and disaster recovery compared to current models. The book thankfully dedicates a number of chapters to these important topics. The book notes that if done correctly, security in the cloud can actually be better than in an internal data center, so the move to cloud computing can result in a high-security computing infrastructure.
The challenge, of course, is doing it right. For those who want a brief but serious introduction to cloud computing, Cloud Application Architectures provides an excellent introduction and overview to this important computing environment.
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