Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

The need for cloud environments

The cloud idea has brought a paradigm shift into the IT space. Businesses are consciously embracing this technology in order to be relevant to their customers and consumers. Cloud environments are software-defined and hence cloud infrastructures (server machines, storage appliances, and networking components) are programmable, network-accessible, remotely monitorable and manageable, and customizable. All kinds of infrastructures can be virtualized and containerizable. Thus, clouds are consolidated, centralized, and shareable. Increasingly, cloud environments are being integrated, allowing us to have hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Further on, with the steady growth of the device ecosystem, there's a rush ...