Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

Cloud computing

Traditionally, organizations need to take care to provision specific infrastructure for their services. Whenever our applications need to scale, we need to buy more servers for them, many times using costly hardware provided by different vendors, and tanking a considerable amount of time to configure them within our systems.

That infrastructure approach usually is tied to a static capacity, so if we have a peak of load in our app, we need to buy more servers, and after that peak is gone, part of our infrastructure is unutilized, sometimes producing more costs just to maintain it or recycle into new services, and because configure isn't easy, probably we keep it as-is until the next peak comes in. Cloud computing is about using ...