"If you're involved in planning ITinfrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, ordeveloper, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highlyscalable, highly redundant infrastructure services. While analysts hotly debatethe advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are leftto determine whether and how to put their applications into these virtualizedservices. Cloud Application Architectures providesanswers -- and critical guidance -- on issues of cost, availability,performance, scaling, privacy, and security.
