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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions
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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

by Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
10h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cloud computing history

For our purposes, the first age of computing was the 1970s when the focus was on big infrastructure. Green-screen terminals, in vogue back then, eventually evolved into personal computers. Networks went from a centralized, hierarchical design to a decentralized design. Decentralization moved the processing closer to the user meaning applications moved from thin client (processing on the server) to thick client (processing on the user/client side). Green screens were tightly coupled interfaces to the data-laden backend. Decentralization enabled developers to track process steps and state information on the server side while allowing client-side computers to do much more of the processing. The period was the birth of ...

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