Appendix A. Cloud is a new computing stack
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Digital Velocity and The Enterprise Dilema
- Traditional models for application development and delivery
- Disrupting Application Delivery and The Birth of Cloud
- Microservices and Containers
- Software defined everything and DevOps
- Cloud is the modern computing stack
A.1 Introduction
Many technology executives and engineers talk about Cloud as a new destination. In reality it's a new state of mind. Cloud is best defined as a set of modern patterns and practices that abstract away the underlying infrastructure. On top of a new technology stack lies the evolution of new architectures for distributed systems that allow scale without requiring ...
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