Azure for Architects - Third Edition

19. Architecting intelligent solutions

Cloud technology has changed a lot of things, including the creation of intelligent applications in an agile, scalable, and pay-as-you-go way. Applications prior to the rise of cloud technology generally did not incorporate intelligence within themselves, primarily because:

• It was time-consuming and error-prone.
• It was difficult to write, test, and experiment with algorithms on an ongoing basis.
• There was a lack of sufficient data.
• It was immensely costly.

Over the last decade, two things have changed that have led to the creation of significantly more intelligent applications than in the past. These two things are the cost-effective, on-demand unlimited scalability of the cloud along with the availability ...