Thomas Erl has brought together the de facto catalog of design patterns for modern cloud-based architecture and solution design. More than two years in development, this book’s 100+ patterns illustrate proven solutions to common cloud challenges and requirements. Its patterns are supported by rich, visual documentation, including 300+ diagrams.
The authors address topics covering scalability, elasticity, reliability, resiliency, recovery, data management, storage, virtualisation, monitoring, provisioning, administration, and much more. Readers will further find detailed coverage of cloud security, from networking and storage safeguards to identity systems, trust assurance, and auditing.
This book’s unprecedented technical depth makes it a must-have resource for every cloud technology architect, solution designer, developer, administrator, and manager.
Topic Areas
Enabling ubiquitous, on-demand, scalable network access to shared pools of configurable IT resources
Optimising multitenant environments to efficiently serve multiple unpredictable consumers
Using elasticity best practices to scale IT resources transparently and automatically
Ensuring runtime reliability, operational resiliency, and automated recovery from any failure
Establishing resilient cloud architectures that act as pillars for enterprise cloud solutions
Rapidly provisioning cloud storage devices, resources, and data with minimal management effort
Enabling customers to configure and operate custom virtual networks in SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS environments
Efficiently provisioning resources, monitoring runtimes, and handling day-to-day administration
Implementing best-practice security controls for cloud service architectures and cloud storage
Securing on-premise Internet access, external cloud connections, and scaled VMs
Protecting cloud services against denial-of-service attacks and traffic hijacking
Establishing cloud authentication gateways, federated cloud authentication, and cloud key management
Providing trust attestation services to customers
Monitoring and independently auditing cloud security
Solving complex cloud design problems with compound super-patterns
Author Biography:
Thomas Erl is a top-selling IT author, founder of Arcitura Education Inc., and series editor of the Prentice Hall Service Technology Series from Thomas Erl. With more than 200,000 copies in print worldwide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major IT organisations.
Robert Cope has more than 25 years of experience in mission-critical systems development, spanning all aspects of the software system engineering lifecycle from architectural development, experimentation and prototyping, requirements development, design, implementation, and operations to acquisition program management for large systems. With more than 10 years in research, development, and implementation of security architecture, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security technology, and security services for large organisations, he has vast experience in information assurance, identity management deployment, operations, and maintenance of large-scale high assurance identity management enclaves.
A certified IT professional with over 14 years of experience in solution architecture and design, engineering, and consultation, Amin Naserpour specialises in designing medium to enterprise-level complex solutions for partially to fully virtualized front-end infrastructures. Amin designed a unified, vendor-independent cloud computing framework that he presented at the 5th International SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium in 2012. Certified in cloud computing, virtualisation, and storage, Amin currently holds Technical Consultant and Cloud Operations Lead positions for Hewlett-Packard, Australia.
