Cloud Architecture Patterns

If your team is investigating ways to design applications for the cloud, this concise book introduces 11 architecture patterns that can help you take advantage of several cloud-platform services. You’ll learn how each of these platform-agnostic patterns work, when they might be useful in the cloud, and what impact they’ll have on your application architecture. You’ll also see an example of each pattern applied to an application built with Windows Azure.

The patterns are organized into four major topics, such as scalability and eventual consistency, and primer chapters provide background on each topic. With the information in this book, you’ll be able to make informed decisions for designing effective cloud-native applications.

Learn about architectural patterns for:

  • Scalability. Discover the advantages of horizontal scaling. Patterns covered include Horizontally Scaling Compute, Queue-Centric Workflow, and Auto-Scaling.
  • Eventual consistency. Learn how to maintain data consistency across a distributed system. Patterns covered include MapReduce and Database Sharding.
  • Multitenancy and commodity hardware. Understand how they influence your applications. Patterns covered include Busy Signal and Node Failure.
  • Network latency. Learn how to deal with delays due to network latency. Patterns covered include Colocation, Direct-to-Storage, and Multi-Site Deployment.

Bill Wilder is a hands-on developer, architect, consultant, trainer, speaker, writer, and community leader focused on helping companies and individuals succeed with the cloud using the Windows Azure Platform. Bill began working with Windows Azure when it was unveiled at the Microsoft PDC in 2008 and subsequently founded Boston Azure, the first/oldest Windows Azure user group in the world in October 2009. Bill is recognized by Microsoft as a Windows Azure MVP and is the author of the upcoming book Cloud Architecture Patterns scheduled to be published by O’Reilly in 2012. Bill can be found blogging at blog.codingoutloud.com and on Twitter at @codingoutloud. You can also check out the Boston Azure cloud user group at www.bostonazure.org and @bostonazure.

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Cloud Architecture Patterns

If your team is investigating ways to design applications for the cloud, this concise book introduces 11 architecture patterns that can help you take advantage of several cloud-platform services. You’ll learn how each of these platform-agnostic patterns work, when they might be useful in the cloud, and what impact they’ll have on your application architecture. You’ll also see an example of each pattern applied to an application built with Windows Azure.

The patterns are organized into four major topics, such as scalability and eventual consistency, and primer chapters provide background on each topic. With the information in this book, you’ll be able to make informed decisions for designing effective cloud-native applications.

Learn about architectural patterns for:

  • Scalability. Discover the advantages of horizontal scaling. Patterns covered include Horizontally Scaling Compute, Queue-Centric Workflow, and Auto-Scaling.
  • Eventual consistency. Learn how to maintain data consistency across a distributed system. Patterns covered include MapReduce and Database Sharding.
  • Multitenancy and commodity hardware. Understand how they influence your applications. Patterns covered include Busy Signal and Node Failure.
  • Network latency. Learn how to deal with delays due to network latency. Patterns covered include Colocation, Direct-to-Storage, and Multi-Site Deployment.

Bill Wilder is a hands-on developer, architect, consultant, trainer, speaker, writer, and community leader focused on helping companies and individuals succeed with the cloud using the Windows Azure Platform. Bill began working with Windows Azure when it was unveiled at the Microsoft PDC in 2008 and subsequently founded Boston Azure, the first/oldest Windows Azure user group in the world in October 2009. Bill is recognized by Microsoft as a Windows Azure MVP and is the author of the upcoming book Cloud Architecture Patterns scheduled to be published by O’Reilly in 2012. Bill can be found blogging at blog.codingoutloud.com and on Twitter at @codingoutloud. You can also check out the Boston Azure cloud user group at www.bostonazure.org and @bostonazure.

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Cloud Architecture Patterns

Cloud Architecture Patterns

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Overview

If your team is investigating ways to design applications for the cloud, this concise book introduces 11 architecture patterns that can help you take advantage of several cloud-platform services. You’ll learn how each of these platform-agnostic patterns work, when they might be useful in the cloud, and what impact they’ll have on your application architecture. You’ll also see an example of each pattern applied to an application built with Windows Azure.

The patterns are organized into four major topics, such as scalability and eventual consistency, and primer chapters provide background on each topic. With the information in this book, you’ll be able to make informed decisions for designing effective cloud-native applications.

Learn about architectural patterns for:

  • Scalability. Discover the advantages of horizontal scaling. Patterns covered include Horizontally Scaling Compute, Queue-Centric Workflow, and Auto-Scaling.
  • Eventual consistency. Learn how to maintain data consistency across a distributed system. Patterns covered include MapReduce and Database Sharding.
  • Multitenancy and commodity hardware. Understand how they influence your applications. Patterns covered include Busy Signal and Node Failure.
  • Network latency. Learn how to deal with delays due to network latency. Patterns covered include Colocation, Direct-to-Storage, and Multi-Site Deployment.

Bill Wilder is a hands-on developer, architect, consultant, trainer, speaker, writer, and community leader focused on helping companies and individuals succeed with the cloud using the Windows Azure Platform. Bill began working with Windows Azure when it was unveiled at the Microsoft PDC in 2008 and subsequently founded Boston Azure, the first/oldest Windows Azure user group in the world in October 2009. Bill is recognized by Microsoft as a Windows Azure MVP and is the author of the upcoming book Cloud Architecture Patterns scheduled to be published by O’Reilly in 2012. Bill can be found blogging at blog.codingoutloud.com and on Twitter at @codingoutloud. You can also check out the Boston Azure cloud user group at www.bostonazure.org and @bostonazure.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781449319779
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/03/2012
Pages: 178
Sales rank: 890,083
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Bill Wilder is a hands-on architect, developer, trainer, speaker, author, and community leader focused on helping companies and individuals succeed with the cloud using the Windows Azure Platform. Bill began working with Windows Azure when it was unveiled at the Microsoft PDC in 2008 and subsequently founded the Boston Azure user group (www.bostonazure.org), the first Windows Azure user group in the world, in October 2009. Bill is recognized by Microsoft as a Windows Azure MVP and is the author of the book Cloud Architecture Patterns (published by O’Reilly). Bill is Principal Consultant at Development Partners Software (www.devpartners.com), can be found blogging at blog.codingoutloud.com, and is on Twitter at @codingoutloud.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Scalability Primer
  • Chapter 2: Horizontally Scaling Compute Pattern
  • Chapter 3: Queue-Centric Workflow Pattern
  • Chapter 4: Auto-Scaling Pattern
  • Chapter 5: Eventual Consistency Primer
  • Chapter 6: MapReduce Pattern
  • Chapter 7: Database Sharding Pattern
  • Chapter 8: Multitenancy and Commodity Hardware Primer
  • Chapter 9: Busy Signal Pattern
  • Chapter 10: Node Failure Pattern
  • Chapter 11: Network Latency Primer
  • Chapter 12: Colocate Pattern
  • Chapter 13: Valet Key Pattern
  • Chapter 14: CDN Pattern
  • Chapter 15: Multisite Deployment Pattern
  • Further Reading
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