Cloud computing promises to revolutionize IT and business by making computing available as a utility over the internet. This book is intended primarily for practising software architects who need to assess the impact of such a transformation. It explains the evolution of the internet into a cloud computing platform, describes emerging development paradigms and technologies, and discusses how these will change the way enterprise applications should be architected for cloud deployment. Gautam Shroff provides a technical description of cloud computing technologies, covering cloud infrastructure and platform services, programming paradigms such as MapReduce, as well as 'do-it-yourself' hosted development tools. He also describes emerging technologies critical to cloud computing. The book also covers the fundamentals of enterprise computing, including a technical introduction to enterprise architecture, so it will interest programmers aspiring to become software architects and serve as a reference for a graduate-level course in software architecture or software engineering.
Preface; Part I. Computing Platforms: 1. Enterprise computing: a retrospective; 2. The internet as a platform; 3. Software as a service and cloud computing; 4. Enterprise architecture: role and evolution; Part II. Cloud Platforms: 5. Cloud computing platforms; 6. Cloud computing economics; Part III. Cloud Technologies: 7. Web services, AJAX and mashups; 8. Virtualization technology; 9. Multi-tenant software; Part IV. Cloud Development: 10. Data in the cloud; 11. MapReduce and extensions; 12. Dev 2.0 platforms; Part V. Software Architecture: 13. Enterprise software: ERP, SCM, CRM; 14. Custom enterprise applications and Dev 2.0; 15. Workflow and business processes; 16. Enterprise analytics and search; Part VI. Enterprise Cloud Computing: 17. Enterprise cloud computing ecosystem; 18. Roadmap for enterprise cloud computing; List of abbreviations; References; Index.
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