Cloud Computing & Virtualization

• 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.