Chapter     3

Applications for the Cloud

In this chapter we discuss the options and reasons for developing an application in the cloud. We look exclusively at an application system and why there are benefits to building applications for the cloud. Data-driven applications have several options and personal preference may prevail in your decision to choose one over the other. All the options may work for you, but some cloud services have different options. MySQL accounts for the majority of cloud development. Whether you are looking for the cloud to sync data, back up, or just read cloud data for your application, cloud services are becoming more popular to develop.

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