Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) Review

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(More customer reviews)All it talks about is Amazon's EC2, S3, MapReduce. It does not talk about "Application Architecture". It does not have ideas about how to break up traditional programs into MapReduce paradigm. It should be called Cloud Operations Architecture. If it was named by that title, I'd give it 5 stars. The book itself is not bad, but it will get obsolete very quickly due to its specificity to Amazon.
subtitle should be :Building Applications and Infrastructure in Amazon Cloud

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If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services. While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications into these virtualized services. Cloud Application Architectures provides answers -- and critical guidance -- on issues of cost, availability, performance, scaling, privacy, and security. With Cloud Application Architectures, you will:



Understand the differences between traditional deployment and cloud computing
Determine whether moving existing applications to the cloud makes technical and business sense
Analyze and compare the long-term costs of cloud services, traditional hosting, and owning dedicated servers
Learn how to build a transactional web application for the cloud or migrate one to it
Understand how the cloud helps you better prepare for disaster recovery
Change your perspective on application scaling

To provide realistic examples of the book's principles in action, the author delves into some of the choices and operations available on Amazon Web Services, and includes high-level summaries of several of the other services available on the market today.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.

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SOA Modeling Patterns for Service Oriented Discovery and Analysis Review

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(More customer reviews)- Sometimes you wonder what you can get for a price that you pay for less than a full tank of gas!
- This book is a clear milestone in software modeling and architecture. I think that this is the next generation. Its value is tremendous to business and IT and especially to analysis, discovery, and modeling of software assets in the space of software development in general, SOA, and Cloud Computing.
- I think that it offers a very important direction and process to establishing services. But the services here are described as holistic software assets such as components, business processes, databases, Web services, applications, and any other software modules you may consider as executables. Interesting!
- In the analysis space, the presented concepts are innovative and can help you to establish a personal strategy as well as an organizational one.
- The patterns are not only design patterns. They are also process patterns, which are important to running projects and analysis patterns that can help you analyze a solution, a design, an architecture, a project direction, or even an enterprise strategy.
- I like the modeling section. Easy to understand and can be used by analysts, architects, managers, developers, and obviously modelers. Note this:
o Contextual analysis and modeling: Generalization, Specification, Expansion, and Contraction
o Structural analysis and modeling: Generalization, Specification, Expansion, and Contraction
- I highly recommend this book. It provides me with tools to see the big picture and helps with hands on low level implementation, such as coding, design, and more.


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Learn the essential tools for developing a sound service-oriented architecture

SOA Modeling Patterns for Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis introduces a universal, easy-to-use, and nimble SOA modeling language to facilitate the service identification and examination life cycle stage. This business and technological vocabulary will benefit your service development endeavors and foster organizational software asset reuse and consolidation, and reduction of expenditure.
Whether you are a developer, business architect, technical architect, modeler, business analyst, team leader, or manager, this essential guide-introducing an elaborate set of more than 100 patterns and anti-patterns-will help you successfully discover and analyze services, and model a superior solution for your project,.
Explores how to discover services
Explains how to analyze services for construction and production
How to assess service feasibility for deployment
How to employ the SOA modeling language during the service identification and examination process
How to utilize the SOA modeling patterns and anti-patterns for service discovery and analysis

Focusing on the Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis Life Cycle Stage, this book will help you acquire a broad SOA Modeling knowledge base and leverage that to increase efficiency and productivity in the workplace.

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