Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns, and Projects - Softcover

Moyer, Christopher M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321720202 ISBN 13: 9780321720207

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2011

Synopsis

Introduces the principles of successful cloud solutions, covering such topics as cloud service providers, images, queuing, clustering, and Marajo.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Moyer is a recent graduate of RIT, the Rochester Institute of Technology, with a bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering. Chris has more than five years experience in programming with a main emphasis on cloud computing. Much of his time has been spent working on the popular boto client library, used for communicating with Amazon Web Services. Having studied under the creator ofboto, Mitch Garnaat, Chris then went on to create two web frameworks based on this client library, known asMarajo and botoweb. He has also created large scaled applications based on those frameworks.

Chris is currently Vice President of Technology for Newstex, LLC, where he manages the technological development of migrating applications to the cloud, and he also manages his own department, which is actively maintaining and developing several applications. Chris lives with his wife, Lynn, in the New York area.

From the Back Cover

Want to maximize the value of your cloud applications--and avoid unnecessary problems?

Don t just migrate to the cloud: Use cloud architectural patterns that deliver superior performance, scalability, and availability.Building Applications in the Cloud will help you do just that--whether you re building new solutions or adapting existing code.

Following the familiar Design Patterns format, expert cloud developer Chris Moyer introduces proven patterns for cloud platforms. Moyer demonstrates these patterns at work through extensive example code and case study applications for Python and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Coverage includes

Mastering the core principles that shape successful cloud solutions

Properly constructing Software as a Service (SaaS)

Understanding the services that cloud service providers offer

Designing an image that gives your cloud application a strong foundation

Choosing the best patterns for interacting with external systems

Efficiently executing code segments against your data

Taking full advantage of clustered multiserver deployments

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321720202
• ISBN 13: 9780321720207
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326