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  • Copyright 2011
  • Pages: 400
  • Edition: 1st
  • Rough Cuts
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-210791-0
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-210791-4

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Following the familiar “Design Patterns” format, expert cloud developer Chris Moyer introduces proven patterns for cloud platforms from Amazon, Google, and other providers. Moyer demonstrates these patterns at work through extensive example code and case study applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). As you increasingly move to the cloud, you’ll constantly encounter the challenges this book solves. You’ll rely on it for years–whenever you need a cloud solution you can trust.

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Table of Contents

Preface     xv

About the Author     xx

Introduction     1

What Is Cloud Computing?     1

The Evolution of Cloud Computing     2

   The Main Frame     3

   The PC Revolution     4

   The Fast Internet     5

   The Cloud     6

   HTML5 and Local Storage     7

   The Dawn of Mobile Devices     9

Threading, Parallel Processing, and Parallel Computing     10

How Does Cloud-Based Development Differ from Other Application Development?     11

What to Avoid     13

Getting Started in the Cloud     14

Selecting a Cloud Pattern     16

Implementing a Cloud Pattern     17

PART I:  CONCEPTS

Chapter 1  Fundamentals of Cloud Services     21

Origins of Cloud Computing     21

What Is a Cloud Service?     23

   Compute     24

   Storage     24

   Connectivity     24

The Legacy Pattern     25

Just Because It’s in the Cloud Doesn’t Mean It Scales     26

Failure as a Feature     27

Consistency, Availability, and Partition Tolerance     28

   Consistency     29

   Availability     30

   Partition Tolerance     30

Eventual Consistency     31

Summary     32

Chapter 2  Making Software a Service     33

Tools Used in This Book     34

   Signing Up for Amazon Web Services     34

   Installing boto     35

   Setting Up the Environment     36

   Testing It All     38

What Does Your Application Need?     39

Data Layer     40

   Introducing the AWS Databases     41

Application Layer     47

   Using Elastic Load Balancing     47

   Adding Servers to the Load Balancer   &nb

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