Cloud Application Architectures

Acknowledgments

This book covers so many disciplines and so many technologies, it would have been impossible for me to write it on my own.

First, I would like to acknowledge the tremendous help I received from Randy Bias at GoGrid and E. J. Johnson at Rackspace. My experience in cloud infrastructure has been entirely with Amazon Web Services, and Randy and E. J. spent a significant amount of time reviewing the book for places where the discussion was specific to AWS. They also wrote the appendixes on the GoGrid and Rackspace offerings.

Next, I would like to thank everyone who read each chapter and provided detailed comments: John Allspaw, Jeff Barr, Christofer Hoff, Theo Schlossnagle, and James Urquhart. They each brought very unique expertise into the technical review of this book, and the book is much better than it otherwise would have been, thanks to their critical eyes.

In addition, a number of people have reviewed and provided feedback on selected parts of the book: David Bagley, Morgan Catlin, Mike Horwath, Monique Reese, Stacey Roelofs, and John Viega.

Finally, I owe the most thanks on this book to Andy Oram and Isabel Kunkle from O’Reilly. I have said this in other places, but I need to say it here: their editing makes me a better writer.