Architecting the Cloud
by Michael J. Kavis · Michael J. Kavis
Walks through the design decisions that separate IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS builds: security, scalability, cost modelling, and disaster recovery. Draws on the author's own failed and successful projects to explain why architectures break at scale.
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