Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide

Foreword

When we think of transformative innovation, it’s easy for our minds to grasp the tangible and overt technologies—the television, the personal computer, the smartphone. These inventions are visible, material commodities that serve a physical purpose in our lives. These technologies start small and then eventually gain widespread adoption, at which point they change the way we interact and engage with the technology—and often with the world around us. When we talk about strides in technology to most people, these are the gadgets they envision: separate objects that can be picked up, plugged in, and turned off.

But for those of us who are quietly enabling digital transformation across multiple industries, we know what innovation can look like. It can be invisible and intangible—the velocity behind a high dive into the pool. The operators and developers of the world no longer reside in the technology aisle. You are leading the change at every kind of company across every industry. It’s one thing to demonstrate how a printing press increases the pace of printing papers exponentially. It’s another thing entirely to explain how a platform that is not visible has the ability to transform a company’s ability to compete in a quickly changing marketplace. This book is a resource for you as you lead the digital revolution within your organization.

This is undoubtedly a technical book devoted to the underlying concepts of Cloud Foundry and how it works, but it is emblematic of something ...