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Cloud Computing in Action Rod Cope MEAP Began: April 2011 Softbound print: Spring 2013 | 350 pages ISBN: 9781617290428 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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1. The Cloud with Open Source - FREE
2. Leveraging the cloud in the real world - AVAILABLE 3. Getting ready 4. Performance - AVAILABLE 5. Dynamic scaling 6. Monitoring and management 7. Understanding Big Data 8. Searching 9. Analyzing 10. Putting your family jewels in the cloud 11. Cloudbursting 12. Avoiding lock-in 13. Predictions Appendix A: Comparison of public cloud providers |
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DESCRIPTION
Cloud Computing is a pretty simple concept. A cloud is a virtual data center that can instantly scale up and down to meet changing storage and processing demands. As cloud computing has matured, the range of options available has exploded. You can build your own "private" cloud or choose from numerous vendors who offer everything from pay-by-the-hour access to virtual servers to turn-key platforms for developing an application.
Because they are extremely scalable, clouds are particularly useful in handling web sites and applications with fast growing or highly variable loads and in processing the massive amounts of information—Big Data—associated with many modern applications. With this flexibility and efficiency comes a new set of patterns and best practices for architecting systems to maximize performance, scalability, security, and data control.
Cloud Computing in Action: Innovating with Open Source is a hands-on guide for software developers that takes you from cloud theory to cloud reality using freely available open source solutions. Open source software is being used to power most public and private clouds, and lets you quickly get your first cloud applications up and running. After a quick-paced overview of the theory and architecture of a cloud solution, you'll dive into a sample web application, called Reverso, designed to deploy in Amazon's EC2 public cloud. As you proceed through the book, you'll enhance the Reverso application to meet requirements in the areas of performance, scalability, management, big data storage, search, analysis, security, cloudbursting, and avoiding vendor lock-in.
You'll build on Reverso using best-in-class open source components, while Author Rod Cope explores the architectural intent and guides you through the code. With each modification of the sample app comes a discussion of the most appropriate open source solutions in the category. The book concludes with a look to the future of cloud computing and describes how practitioners can prepare for the changing landscape.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- A developer-centric introduction to cloud computing
- A guide to the best open source technology for building cloud solutions
- Integrating cloud-based and traditional systems
- Rapid scaling through cloudbursting
- Using the cloud to deliver software as a service (SaaS)
- Much more
This book is designed for software developers who need to build efficient cloud-based systems. Prior experience with cloud computing is not required.
About the Author
Rod Cope is the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic, Inc., a company that helps enterprises safely and successfully leverage open source in the data center and the cloud. OpenLogic provides support, scanning and governance solutions that enable developers to leverage the power of open source. Rod has over 25 years of software development experience, including the deployment of Hadoop, HBase, Solr, and other cloud-friendly technologies. He's a highly rated speaker at conferences including JavaOne, Hadoop World, Lucene Revolution, RailsConf, and OSCON.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Cloud Computing in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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