Architecting for the Cloud: Best Practices

by Jinesh Varia

For several years, software architects have discovered and implemented several concepts and best practices to build

highly scalable applications. In today’s "era of tera", these concepts are even more applicable because of ever-growing

datasets, unpredictable traffic patterns, and the demand for faster response times. This paper will reinforce and

reiterate some of these traditional concepts and discuss how they may evolve in the context of cloud computing. It will

also discuss some unprecedented concepts such as elasticity that have emerged due to the dynamic nature of the cloud.

This paper is targeted towards cloud architects who are gearing up to move an enterprise-class application from a fixed

physical environment to a virtualized cloud environment. The focus of this paper is to highlight concepts, principles and

best practices in creating new cloud applications or migrating existing applications to the cloud.

23 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2011