Cloud Computing & Virtualization

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Designing Software in a Distributed World Oct 1, 2014 This chapter from The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 is an overview of what is involved in designing services that use distributed computing techniques. These are the techniques all large web sites use to achieve their size, scale, speed, and reliability.

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Operations in a Distributed World Sep 22, 2014 This chapter from The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 starts with some operations management background, then discusses the operations service life cycle, and ends with a discussion of typical operations work strategies.

Cloud Computing: Orchestrating and Automating Technical Building Blocks Nov 28, 2011 This chapter provides a detailed overview of how an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service is orchestrated and automated.