Book Review: Cloud Application Architectures, Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud by George Reese

Book Review: Cloud Application Architectures, Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud by George Reese: Publisher- O’Reilly: ISBN- 13: 978-0-596-15636-7

There are several books in wild about cloud. Most of these books are focusing on business aspects of cloud. This is the first book on cloud which I encountered, covers some aspects of technical aspects of Cloud computing.

The book is easy read and does not assume any technical hands on any platform or programming language but still covers fair amount of technical details of applications to be available on cloud.

Book focuses on transactional web applications to be available on cloud in general and Amazon cloud platform in particular. Since book focuses on Amazon Cloud platform which is Platform and Infrastructure focused, book focuses on Platform and Infrastructure as service aspect of Cloud.

Book has seven chapters which cover introduction to cloud, Amazon EC2 and S3, Business and Technical aspects of moving an application to cloud, security, disaster recovery and scalability of application. Book covers wide spectrum of challenges and opportunities of clod applications. This book is not for hard core developer community but for techno managerial community which will influence the business decisions in any large enterprise.

In appendix there are short articles by Randy Bias of GoGrid and Eric Johnson of Rackspace which are potentially in same cloud space as of Amazon.

Book certainly worth one read on hot topic of Cloud. Book must be in your bookshelf if you are of software techno managerial breed or aspiring one.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.
Further reading: Following are the book covering cloud computing:

1. Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance by Tim Mather (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Security-Privacy-Enterprise-Perspective/dp/0596802765)

2. Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach by Anthony T. Velte, Toby J. Velte and Robert Elsenpeter (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Computing-Practical-Approach-Velte/dp/0071626948)

3. Dot Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform Built on Cloud Computing by Peter Fingar (http://www.amazon.com/Dot-Cloud-Business-Platform-Computing/dp/0929652495)

4. Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security by John W. Rittinghouse (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Computing-Implementation-Management-Security/dp/1439806802)

One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Publisher Oreilly: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596156374

2. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Application-Architectures-Applications-Infrastructure/dp/0596156367

3. Cloud Computing at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

4. a1Books: http://www.a1books.co.in/searchdetail.do?a1Code=booksgoogle&itemCode=0596156367

5. Flipkart: http://www.flipkart.com/search.php?query=0596156367

6. George Reese at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reese_%28computer_programmer%29

7. Book Review: http://restrainedfreedom.com/2009/07/book-review-cloud-application-architectures-building-applications-and-infrastructures-in-the-cloud/

8. George Reese at Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgereese