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Cloud Application Architectures - New From O'Reilly
Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud

Sebastopol, CA--The "cloud" is not simply the latest fashionable term for
the Internet. Author George Reese explains: "Though the Internet is a
necessary foundation for the cloud, the cloud is something more than the
Internet. The cloud is where you go to use technology when you need it,
for as long as you need it, and not a minute more. You do not install
anything on your desktop, and you do not pay for the technology when
you're not using it.

According to Reese, the cloud can be both software and infrastructure. "It
can be an application you access through the Web or a server that you
provision exactly when you need it."  Whether a service is software or
hardware, Reese offers the following simple test to determine whether that
service is a cloud service:

"If you can walk into any library or Internet cafe and sit down at any
computer without preference for operating system or browser and access a
service, that service is cloud-based."

Reese's new book, "Cloud Application Architectures" (O'Reilly, US $29.99)
goes well beyond defining the cloud to teach the programming and system
administration skills necessary to build and support applications in the
cloud, using transactional apps for customer orders and payments as a
practical example.

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system
architect, system administrator, or developer, "Cloud Application
Architectures" will help you adapt your skills to work with the highly
scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services offered by Amazon and
other providers. With this book, you will:

- Understand the differences between traditional deployment and cloud
computing in areas such as reliability, security, and the ability to
predict load and capacity
- Determine whether moving existing applications to the cloud makes
technical and business sense
- Build a transactional web application and set up virtual servers to
support it
- Learn how the cloud helps you better prepare for disaster recovery
- See how cloud computing changes your perspective on application scaling

"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.

George Reese is the founder and President of Valtira LLC in Minneapolis,
MN and author of technology books such as the MySQL Pocket Reference,
Database Programming with JDBC and Java, and Java Database Best
Practices.

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bio, and samples, see:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596156367/

Cloud Application Architectures
George Reese
ISBN: 978-0-596-15636-7, 186 pages, US $29.99
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