There are more applications running in the cloud than there are ones that run well there. If you're considering taking advantage of cloud technology for your company's projects, this practical guide is an ideal way to understand the best practices that will help you architect applications that work well in the cloud, no matter which vendors, products, or languages you use.
Architects and lead developers will learn how cloud applications should be designed, how they fit into a larger architectural picture, and how to make them operate efficiently. Authors Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, and Joseph Yoder take you through the process step-by-step.
- Explore proven architectural practices for developing applications for the cloud
- Understand why some architectural choices are better suited than others for applications intended to run on the cloud
- Learn design and implementation techniques for developing cloud applications
- Select the most appropriate cloud adoption patterns for your organization
- See how all potential choices in application design relate to each other through the connections of the patterns
- Chart your own course in adopting the right strategies for developing application architectures for the cloud
Kyle Brown is an IBM Fellow and the CTO of Modernization for IBM Global Markets. He has been programming professionally since he was sixteen and has been focusing on the design and implementation of large-scale Enterprise systems for over thirty years. Kyle speaks at IBM and Industry conferences, has written for multiple publications, hosts web chats, and records YouTube Videos for IBM. He has also written ten books, including The Cloud Adoption Playbook.
Bobby Woolf ( has worked with IBM clients and partners to help them develop enterprise applications deployed on the cloud, incorporating the latest best practices and technologies. Bobby has published numerous technical articles and presented at conferences, and has been writing patterns since the first Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) conference in 1994. He is an Open Group certified Distinguished Technical Specialist and a coauthor of a few books, including Enterprise Integration Patterns, published by Addison-Wesley.
Joseph (Joe) Yoder ( is a research collaborator at IME/USP; president and a fellow of the Hillside Group, a group dedicated to improving the quality of software development; and is a founder and principal of the Refactory, a company focused on software architecture, design, implementation, consulting, and mentoring on all facets of software development. He is best known as an author of the "Big Ball of Mud" pattern, illuminating fallacies in software architecture. Joe is also a coauthor of A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game, which includes 94 patterns and 2 pattern languages about getting the most out of Scrum. Joe received the New Directions award at the Software Engineering Institute's conference on Software Architecture. The ACM recognized Joe as a Distinguished Member in the category of "Outstanding Engineering Contributions to Computing," and the Hillside Group awarded Joe as a Hillside Fellow
