Chapter 10. Defining Candidate Data, Services, and Processes for the Clouds

When there’s snow on the ground, I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds.

—Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka, and Toshihiro KawabataAnimal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Now we’re cooking. We have an information, service, process, and governance understanding of our problem domain, and we understand how to approach testing. Now it is time to identify the data, services, and processes that are good candidates for cloud computing. In the next chapter, we move them out there as well as define the end-state architecture and how to extend our SOA out to the clouds.

Keep in mind that we are doing a bit of a distributed computing balancing act now, deploying services, processes, and ...

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