Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

Hybrid development environment

A runtime environment for production is replicated and mocked in an elastic environment for new applications development and testing. Applications have different runtime environment requirements during the development, testing, and production phases. During development, hardware requirements vary, so hardware resources need to be flexible and able to extend resources as necessary. During the test phase, diverse test systems are needed in order to verify proper application functionality on various operating systems or while being accessed with different client software. Large numbers of resources are also required for load tests. In production, other factors, such as security and availability are of greater importance ...