Facing new challenges

Software complexity is increasing over time and we need to concentrate on the functional aspects of domain problem, coding domain logic, and presentation. If possible, we would reuse as many functionalities that we could if they respected common patterns that were accepted, solved, and shared by developer community.

Development is different to Operations, as the developer has a different role from an IT professional. While developing solutions, we cannot really avoid any knowledge about operations, deployment, security, and authentication issues.

On-premise, many solutions are avoided because of lack of business view and no clearance from the management. We need to move our business costs from capital expenses to operation expenses. This lowers acquisition barriers as every company, single professionals, or small independent teams can access the same cloud power. We can also view this as a democratization of the web.

We now live in a global village, and we need to deploy our solutions worldwide, minimizing latency and give the users better responses without moving away from our company and country.

We need a self-service approach to turn services on and off, instantiating and destroying appliances, which allow us to control costs and invites experimenting, new technologies, platforms, and architectures.

The cloud democratizes access to advanced deployment scenarios such as clustering and high availability, backup, and operational management.

This is a book for you, the developer, who feels uncomfortable and needs to improve your skills and embrace the cloud. This book is all about real-world scenarios where you can train new skills and the start mapping your daily projects in this new and exciting world.

Let's move on, together.